Species profile—Zenarchopterus buffonis (northern river garfish)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) → Hemiramphidae (garfish or halfbeaks) → Zenarchopterus buffonis (northern river garfish)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
- Family
- Hemiramphidae (garfish or halfbeaks)
- Scientific name
- Zenarchopterus buffonis (Valenciennes, 1847)
- Common name
- northern river garfish
- Type reference
- Valenciennes, A. (1987) in Cuvier, G. and Valenciennes, A. 1847. Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dix-neuvieme. Suite du livre dix-neuvieme. Brochets ou Lucioides. Livre vingtieme. De quelques familles de Malacopterygiens, intermediaires entre les Brochets et les Clupes. Hist. Nat. Poiss. i-xix + 1-544 + 6 pp.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 31514
- Synonym(s)
- Hemiramphus buffonis
Hemirhamphus buffonis
Zenarchopterus buffoni - Alternate name(s)
- Buffon's river-garfish
- Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Dependant Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=31514.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
