Exocoetus volitans Linnaeus 1758
- 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 volitans
description
Tropical Two-wing Flyingfish. To about 24 cm (9.4 in) TL (Parin 2003). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); Todos Santos (23 ° 24.6 ’ N, 110 ° 13.8 ’ W), southern Baja California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M. L.) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Primarily oceanic, also neritic (Watson in Moser 1996); depth: surface to 20 m (66 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).
Name
- Homonyms
- Exocoetus volitans Linnaeus 1758