Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Beloniformes

Family: Hemiramphidae

Genus: Euleptorhamphus

Species: Euleptorhamphus velox Poey, 1868

Climate Zone

Location

• Eastern Atlantic: Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Gulf of Guinea and Nigeria. Western Atlantic: Rhode Island, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to the Antilles (Ref. 26340) and Brazil (Ref. 7251); including the Caribbean Sea (Ref. 4497). Record from Namibia may belong to Indo-Pacific species Euleptorhamphus viridis.

Biology

Occurs in coastal and oceanic waters (Ref. 2683).

Habitat

oceanic

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Threat to Humans

Harmless