Rhynchorhamphus arabicus or Arabian flyingfish is a halfbeak of the family Hemiramphidae of the order Beloniformes.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beloniformes |
| Family: | Hemiramphidae |
| Genus: | Rhynchorhamphus |
| Species: | R. arabicus
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| Rhynchorhamphus arabicus | |
It is one of the four recognized species of the genus Rhynchorhamphus and can be found in the Western Indian Ocean, near Yemen and Somalia.[2]
References
edit- ^ R. arabicus - The Taxonomicon
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Rhynchorhamphus arabicus". FishBase. August 2012 version.
Further reading
editCollette, Bruce (January 1976). "Indo-West Pacific Halfbeaks (hemiramphidae) of The Genus Rhynchorhamphus with Descriptions of Two New Species". Bulletin. 26 (1): 72–98. Ritland, Kermit; Leblanc, Marissa; B., Collette (December 2004). "Mating system of four inbreeding monkeyflower (Mimulus) species revealed using 'progeny-pair' analysis of highly informative microsatellite markers". Plant Species Biology. 19 (3): 72–98, 149–157. doi:10.1111/j.1442-1984.2004.00111.x.</ref>
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