''Rhynchorhamphus malabaricus'' or Malabar 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 ...

and can be found along the Western Indian Ocean, from southern India to Sri Lanka.

References

malabaricus Fish described in 1976 {{Beloniformes-stub