Animalia > Chordata > Beloniformes > Hemiramphidae > Hyporhamphus > Hyporhamphus melanochir

Hyporhamphus melanochir (dusky sea garfish; Western sea garfish; Southern sea garfish; Southern garfish; South Australian garfish; Sea garfish; Pencils; Garfish; Halfbeak; Gardie; Dusky garfish)

Synonyms: Hemiramphus melanochir; Reporhamphus melanochir (heterotypic)
Language: Finnish; Mandarin Chinese

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  330 grams
Female Maturity [2]  2 years 6 months
Male Maturity [1]  2 years 6 months
Maximum Longevity [2]  10 years

Prey / Diet

Paradexamine churinga[3]
Tethygeneia nalgo[3]
Zostera muelleri (Species code: Zc)[3]
Zostera tasmanica (Species code: Zt)[3]

Predators

Eudyptula minor (Little Penguin)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Micracanthorhynchina hemirhamphi[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 3Feeding Habits of the Southern Australian Garfish Hyporhamphus melanochir: A Diurnal Herbivore and Nocturnal Carnivore, A. I. Robertson and D. W. Klumpp, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 10: 197-201, 1983
♦ 4Diet of little penguins, Eudyptula minor, from Penguin Island, Western Australia, NI Klomp and RD Wooller, Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 39(5) 633 - 639
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0