Cheilopogon xenopterus (Gilbert 1890)
- 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 xenopterus
description
Sparrow Flyingfish or Whitetip Flyingfish. To 22 cm (8.7 in) TL (Parin in Fischer et al. 1995). Southernmost Baja California (Robertson and Allen 2008) to at least Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Surface to 5 m (17 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).