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Distributional And Ecological Notes On The Halfbeaks Of Eastern Gulf Of Mexico, With A Provisional Key For Their Identification, S. Contreras-Balderas, M.L. Lozano-Vilano, M.E. Garcia Ramirez

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Several fishes of the halfbeak genus Hyporhamphus occurring in the Mexican Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea have been misidentified or confused in the literature. Most of it has centered around the taxonomic status of H. unifasciatus (including its synonym H. roberti), which is shown to comprise a complex of three species, H. unifasciatus, the recently described H. meeki, from the western Atlantic region, and an undescribed species from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Another eastern Mexico halfbeak is the freshwater form H. mexicanus. Using Banford and Collette (1993), we examined specimens from collections at UANL, UNAM, …