Species that contain: Hyporhamphus and picarti [ 4 ] records

calabaricus, Hemirhamphus Günther [A.] 1866:266 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 6; ref. 1983] Old Calabar, Nigeria. Lectotype: BMNH 1861.12.29.6. Paralectotypes: BMNH 1865.5.3.50-51 (2). Original genus is correctly Hemiramphus. Lectotype selected by Collette 1965:230 [ref. 13343]. •Synonym of Hyporhamphus picarti (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Collette 1965:228 [ref. 13343], Parin 1973:269 [ref. 7191], Collette 1986:163 [ref. 6197], Collette & Parin 1990:581 [ref. 16473]). •Synonym of Hyporamphus picarti (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Bauchot in Lévêque et al. 1992:580 [ref. 21590], Collette 2004:10 [ref. 27583]). Current status: Synonym of Hyporhamphus picarti (Valenciennes 1847). Hemiramphidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

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.

schlegeli, Hemiramphus Bleeker [P.] 1863:120, Pl. 25 (fig. 1) [Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem (Ser. 2) v. 18 (1862); ref. 395] Ghana. Syntypes: RMNH 2828 (9). •Synonym of Hyporhamphus picarti (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Parin 1973:269 [ref. 7191], Collette 1986:163 [ref. 6197], Collette & Parin 1990:581 [ref. 16473]). •Synonym of Hyporamphus picarti (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Bauchot in Lévêque et al. 1992:580 [ref. 21590], Collette 2004:10 [ref. 27583]). Current status: Synonym of Hyporhamphus picarti (Valenciennes 1847). Hemiramphidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

xanthopterus, Hemiramphus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:47 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 19; ref. 4883] Fresh waters of Alleppey [now Alappuzha], southeastern India. Holotype (unique): MNHN (not found). Type catalog: Collette et al. 1997:24 [ref. 22813]. Often misidentified as Hyporhamphus limbatus or Hyporhamphus picarti (Collette 1981:29 [ref. 12728]). •Valid as Hyporhamphus xanthopterus (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Parin et al. 1980:41 [ref. 6895], Collette 1982 [ref. 12728], Dor 1984:63 [ref. 29757], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:735 [ref. 20764], Goren & Dor 1994:16 [ref. 25356], Collette 2004:12 [ref. 27583], Ali et al. 2018:315 [ref. 36183], Collette 2022:364 [ref. 39718]). Current status: Valid as Hyporhamphus xanthopterus (Valenciennes 1847). Hemiramphidae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: southwest coast of India east to Thailand. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.