''Rhynchorhamphus georgii'' or long-billed halfbeak is a

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 ...

of the family

Hemiramphidae 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 ...

of the order Beloniformes. It is one of the four recognized species of the genus

Rhynchorhamphus ''Rhynchorhamphus'' is a genus of halfbeaks. They are found in western Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Ocean, Indian ocean. Species There are currently four recognized species in this genus: * ''Rhynchorhamphus arabicus'' Nikolai Vasilyevich P ...

. One of the most widespread of them, it is found from the Persian Gulf through the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal through the Western Central Pacific north to Taiwan and Hong Kong and east to New Guinea and northern Australia. This species was described by Achille Valenciennes in 1847 with the type locality given as the

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and

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, India. The

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honours the

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voyager and merchant

Jean-Jacques Dussumier Jean-Jacques Dussumier (1792–1883) was a French voyager and merchant from Bordeaux. He is known as a collector of zoological species from southern Asia and regions around the Indian Ocean between 1816 and 1840. These collections were later studied ...

(1792-1883) who Valenciennes referred to as "George".

References

georgii Fish described in 1847 Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Beloniformes-stub