Fodiator rostratus (Gunther 1866)
- 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
- Fodiator
- species
- Fodiator rostratus
description
Pacific Flyingfish or Sharpchin Flyingfish. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL (McEachran and Fechhelm 1998). Point Conception (34 ° 12 ’ N, 120 ° 57 ’ W) (Kyle Evans, pers. comm. to M. L.) and Goleta, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Parin in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Neritic and oceanic at surface, usually in coastal waters (Watson in Moser 1996), and sometimes intertidal (Love et al. 2005).
Name
- Homonyms
- Fodiator rostratus (Gunther 1866)