Hyporhamphus yuri
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| Hyporhamphus yuri | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beloniformes |
| Family: | Hemiramphidae |
| Genus: | Hyporhamphus |
| Species: | H. yuri |
| Binomial name | |
| Hyporhamphus yuri | |
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]
