limbatus, Hemiramphus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:44 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 19; ref. 4883] Malabar coast, India. Lectotype: MNHN B-1060. Paralectotypes: MNHN B-1059 (3), B-2637 [ex MNHN B-1060] (1), 0000-6325 (3). Type catalog: Collette et al. 1997:17 [ref. 22813]. Lectotype selected by Parin et al. 1980:17 [ref. 6895]. See Coad 1991:26 [ref. 15702]. •Valid as Hyporhamphus limbatus (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Parin et al. 1980:17 [ref. 6895], Collette & Su 1986;270 [ref. 5998], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:734 [ref. 20764], Wu & Zhong in Pan et al. 1991:338 [ref. 23876], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:177 [ref. 27969], Rainboth 1996:173 [ref. 22772], Rema Devi et al. 1996:138 [ref. 24021], Carpenter et al. 1997:130 [ref. 23922], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:241 [ref. 24754], Collette 1999:2191 [ref. 24785], Mishra et al. 1999:84 [ref. 25315], Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:599 [ref. 25122], Kottelat 2001:57 [ref. 25482], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:185 [ref. 25703], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S100 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:8 [ref. 27710], Ataur Rahman 2003:73 [ref. 31338], Collette 2004:8 [ref. 27583], Shrestha 2008:203 [ref. 29923], Kottelat 2013:291 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:62 [ref. 34464], Psomadakis et al. 2015:178 [ref. 34104], Ali et al. 2018:315 [ref. 36183], Arunkumar & Manimekalan 2018:1739 [ref. 36172], Musikasinthorn in Kimura et al. 2018:64 [ref. 36460], Suresh et al. 2018:164 [ref. 36495], Eagderi et al. 2019:23 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 11 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:339 [ref. 37272], Taki et al. 2021:332 [ref. 39830], Collette 2022:362 [ref. 39718], Endruweit 2024:35 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Hyporhamphus limbatus (Valenciennes 1847). Hemiramphidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to Vietnam and southern China. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.