Cheilopogon furcatus (Mitchill 1815)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Beloniformes
- family
- Exocoetidae
- genus
- Cheilopogon
- species
- Cheilopogon furcatus
description
Spotfin Flyingfish. To 35 cm (13.8 in) TL (Cervigón in Cervigón et al. 1992). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); central Baja California (28 ° 00 ’ N, 117 ° 25 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to well off Peru (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Depth: epipelagic.
Name
- Homonyms
- Cheilopogon furcatus (Mitchill 1815)