Gallery of beloniform fishes

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The Beloniformes is an order of freshwater and marine ray-finned fish comprising five families, the Adrianichthyidae, Belonidae, Exocoetidae, Hemiramphidae, and the Scomberesocidae.

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[edit] Adrianichthyidae (ricefish or medakas)

Japanese ricefish Oryzias latipes

[edit] Belonidae (needlefishes)

Tylosurus crocodilus

Various needlefish at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum

[edit] Exocoetidae (flyingfishes)

Cheilopogon exsiliens

Exocoetus volitans

Parexocoetus brachypterus

Flyingfish in a painting by H. J. Draper

Flyingfish in a painting by Hieronymus Bosch

[edit] Hemirhamphidae (halfbeaks)

Hemiramphus brasiliensis

Hemiramphus balao

Hemiramphus balao

Hemirhamphus pacificus at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum

A school of marine halfbeaks (Hemirhamphus sp.)

Oxyporhamphus micropterus has been classified either as a halfbeak or a flyingfish.

Hemirhamphodon pogongnathus with key morphological features labelled

Hemirhamphodon pogonognathus

Hemirhamphodon pogonognathus and Dermogenys sp.

Hemirhamphodon (left) and Dermogenys (right) compared

Male Nomorhamphus spp. fighting

Nomorhamphus liemi liemi juvenile, aged 7 days

Nomorhamphus liemi liemi halfbeaks in a new aquarium

Female Dermogenys sumatrana

Dermogenys sumatrana a day or so before giving birth

Dermogenys sp. juvenile, about three weeks old

Dermogenys sp. juvenile, about two months old

[edit] Scomberesocidae (sauries)

Scomberesox saurus