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Noun
(zoology) Any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower, the balahoo.
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Halfbeak landings were highest in 1991-92, but have fluctuated considerably between years.
Florida's halfbeak fishery is highly selective, and only low numbers of flyingfishes and needlefishes are consistently caught as bycatch and needlefishes.
The relationships and taxonomic position of the halfbeak, killifishes, silversides, and their relatives.
There are actually several members of the halfbeak family in Florida waters, collectively and generally referred to as ballyhoo.
The only modern animals that have this sort of structure are skimmer birds and a kind of fish known as a halfbeak, she says.
This has been observed primarily among sharks, such as the shortfin mako and porbeagle, but is known for a few bony fish as well, such as the halfbeak Nomorhamphus ebrardtii.
