Hyporhamphus yuri

Hyporhamphus yuri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Beloniformes
Family:	Hemiramphidae
Genus:	Hyporhamphus
Species:	H. yuri
Binomial name
	Hyporhamphus yuri; Collette & Parin, 1978[1]

Hyporhamphus yuri is a halfbeak from the family Hemiramphidae which has been reported from Okinawa and nearby islands in the north-west Pacific Ocean.[2] This species was described by Bruce Baden Collette & Nikolai Vasilyevich Parin in 1978 from a type obtained at the Naha Market in Okinawa.[3] The specific name honours the Russian ichthyologist Yuri Nikolayevich Shcherbachev of the Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR.[4]

References

Hyporhamphus yuri - The Taxonomicon
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Hyporhamphus yuri" in FishBase. 8 2012 version.
Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Hyporhamphus yuri". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (15 June 2019). "Order BELONIFORMES (Needlefishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 22 August 2019.

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[1] Hyporhamphus yuri - The Taxonomicon

[2] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Hyporhamphus yuri" in FishBase. 8 2012 version.

[CofF-3] Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Hyporhamphus yuri". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 August 2019.

[ETYFish-4] Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (15 June 2019). "Order BELONIFORMES (Needlefishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 22 August 2019.