| Snubnose garfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beloniformes |
| Family: | Hemiramphidae |
| Genus: | Arrhamphuus Günther, 1866 |
| Species: | A. sclerolepis |
| Binomial name | |
| Arrhamphus sclerolepis Günther, 1866 |
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Arrhamphus sclerolepis is the only species in the genus Arrhamphus of halfbeak found across in coastal waters of the Indo-West Pacific around Papua New Guinea and Australia, and in the freshwaters of adjacent river systems. Considered a good game fish, but of little commercial value either as food or as an aquarium fish. This species is known to anglers in Australia as the snub-nosed gar. The species is distinguished from most other halfbeaks by the lower jaw being only slightly longer than the upper jaw.