picarti, Hemiramphus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:25 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 19; ref. 4883] [Bône] Annaba, Algeria; Algiers, Algeria, western Mediterranean Sea. Lectotype: MNHN B-1069. Paralectotypes: MNHN 1996-0135 [ex MNHN B-1069] (3). Type catalog: Collette et al. 1997:18 [ref. 22813]. Lectotype selected by Collette 1965:230 [ref. 13343]. •Valid as Hyporhamphus picarti (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Collette 1965:228 [ref. 13343], Parin 1973:269 [ref. 7191], Collette 1986:163 [ref. 6197], Collette & Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986:622 [ref. 13676], Collette & Parin 1990:581 [ref. 16473], Bauchot in Lévêque et al. 1992:580 [ref. 21590] as Hyporamphus, Poll & Gosse 1995:99 [ref. 24781], Afonso et al. 1999:83 [ref. 25466], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:61 [ref. 26753] dated 1846, Falcón et al. 2003:145 [ref. 39343], Collette 2004:10 [ref. 27583], Golani 2005:29 [ref. 37112], Wirtz et al. 2007:27 [ref. 30263], Banford 2010:347 [ref. 31088], Collette 2016:2162 [ref. 34601], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:95 [ref. 36864], Reiner 2019:139 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:42 [ref. 37515], Golani 2021:32 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:53 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:269 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Hyporhamphus picarti (Valenciennes 1847). Hemiramphidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Gibraltar and Morocco south to Angola, including São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: brackish, marine.