Hirundichthys speculiger (Valenciennes 1847)
- 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
- Hirundichthys
- species
- Hirundichthys speculiger
description
Mirrorwing Flyingfish. To about 31 cm (12.2 in) TL (Parin in Carpenter 2003). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southeast of southern Kuril Islands (42 ° 00 ’ N, 147 ° 00 ’ W) (Saveliev et al. 2015); just south of Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California and westward well offshore (Parin in Fischer et al. 1995) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Primarily oceanic (Watson in Moser 1996); depth: surface to 20 m (66 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).