Hemiramphidae

tropical halfbeak

Hyporhamphus affinis

Hemiramphid Fish beneath the Hawaiian Islands

• Tropical
• Transcontinental
• Marine fish
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Africa
• Oceania
• Southeast Asia
• Elongated
• Medium
• Tropical fish

Hyporhamphus affinis, the tropical halfbeak, tropical garfish, insular halfbeak or coral reef halfbeak, is a species of schooling marine fish from the family Hemiramphidae. It is distributed through the Indo-Pacific regions and has been recorded in the Mediterranean Sea which it reached through the Suez Canal.