Family Hemiramphidae Gill 1859 (Fig. 4J). Halfbeaks; Saltadores, Agujetas, Medio Picos Description: Body slender; up to 40 cm in length; lower jaw extends into a long beak; upper jaw much shorter than lower with the premaxillae pointed anteriorly giving it a triangular shape; lateral line low on the sides of body; pectoral fins high on sides, variable in length; pelvic fins under rear of abdomen; caudal fin usually forked or concave (Robertson & Allen 2015, Nelson et al. 2016). Distribution: Marine, rarely freshwater; Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans (Nelson et al. 2016). One genus and two species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.

Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788