meeki, Hyporhamphus Banford [H. M.] & Collette [B. B.] 1993:371, Fig. 2A [Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington v. 106 (no. 2); ref. 20875] Morehead City, North Carolina, U.S.A. Holotype: USNM 294369. Paratypes: USNM 51878 (1), 68368 (5), 90798 (1), 131146 (1), 132257 (4), 149969 (1), 187214 (2), 294377 (2), 294396 (1), 294426-27 (1, 1), 294435 (1), 294441 (1); VIMS 61 (21), 607 (7), 7873 (3); VIMS-CBL 173 (2), 1523 (11), 3571 (1). •Valid as Hyporhamphus meeki Banford & Collette 1993 -- (Murdy et al. 1997:120 [ref. 23144], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:961 [ref. 23897], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:213 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:178 [ref. 25013], Banford & Collette 2001:45 [ref. 25778], Collette in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:290 [ref. 26158], Gibson & Myers 2002:134 [ref. 26567], Collette 2003:1141 [ref. 26981], Collette 2004:8-9 [ref. 27583], Nelson et al. 2004:101 [ref. 27807], Banford 2010:347 [ref. 31088], Page et al. 2013:102 [ref. 32708], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Collette & Bemis 2019:113 [ref. 37342], Page et al. 2023:149 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Hyporhamphus meeki Banford & Collette 1993. Hemiramphidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: New Brunswick (Canada) south to Florida (U.S.A.), and Gulf of Mexico. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.