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.) |
 The small wing "flyingfish" is in fact a halfbeak, Oxyporhamphus micropterus |
 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 |
