The Philippine snubnose halfbeak (''Melapedalion breve'') is a species of

halfbeak Hemiramphidae is a family of fishes that are commonly called halfbeaks, spipe fish or spipefish. They are a geographically widespread and numerically abundant family of epipelagic fish inhabiting warm waters around the world. The halfbeaks are ...

. It is a coastal species that originates from the

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and

Sulu Sea The Sulu Sea ( fil, Dagat Sulu; Tausug: ''Dagat sin Sūg''; Chavacano: ''Mar de Sulu''; Cebuano: ''Dagat sa Sulu''; Hiligaynon: ''Dagat sang Sulu''; Karay-a: ''Dagat kang Sulu''; Cuyonon: ''Dagat i'ang Sulu''; ms, Laut Sulu) is a body o ...

s around the Philippines and Malaysia. It grows to about SL. It is the only member of its monotypic genus and was originally described as ''Oxyporhamphus brevis'' by Alvin Seale in 1910 with the type locality given as Paawacan, Palawan Island, Philippines.

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Hemiramphidae Monotypic fish genera Fish described in 1910 Taxa named by Alvin Seale {{Beloniformes-stub