Exocoetus monocirrhus Richardson 1846
- 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
- Exocoetus
- species
- Exocoetus monocirrhus
description
Barbel Flyingfish. To 23 cm (9.1 in) TL (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002). Circumglobal (Shakhovskoy 2018); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); southern Baja California (25 ° 22 ’ N, 113 ° 08 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Surface to 20 m (66 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). Characterized as Indo-Pacific in Fricke et al. (2020).