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Exocoetidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Beloniformes
family
Exocoetidae

Name

Synonyms
Clupea evolans (Blainville, 1818)
Engraulis evolans (Blainville, 1818)
Exocetidae
Homonyms
Exocoetidae
Common names
Fliegende Fische in German
Flying Fish in English
Flyvefisk in Danish
Flyvefiskfamilien in Danish
Flyvefiskfamilien in Danish
Peces voladores in Spanish
Peixes-voadores in Portuguese
Pesci volanti in Italian
Poissons volants in French
Ptaszorowate in Polish
Vlieënde Visse in Afrikaans
exocets in French
exocets in French
flygefiskfamilien in Norwegian Bokmål
flygfiskar in Swedish
flyingfishes in English
flyingfishes in English
flyingfishes in English
letounovití in Czech
liitokalat in Finnish
timu in language.
voladores in Spanish
voladores in Spanish
Χελιδονόψαρο in Greek, Modern (1453-)
Летучие рыбы in Russian
ปลานกกระจอก in Thai
トビウオ科 in Japanese
飛魚科 in Chinese
flygefiskfamilien in Norwegian Bokmål
flygefiskfamilien in Nynorsk, Norwegian
flygfiskar in Swedish
トビウオ科 in Japanese
Flyingfishes in English
flygefiskfamilien in Norwegian Bokmål
flygefiskfamilien in Norwegian Bokmål
flygefiskfamilien in Nynorsk, Norwegian
flygefiskfamilien in Nynorsk, Norwegian
flyingfishes in English
flyingfishes in English
トビウオ科 in Japanese
トビウオ科 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  2. Collette, Bruce B. / Collette, Bruce B., and Grace Klein-MacPhee, eds., 2002: Flyingfishes: Family Exocoetidae. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, Third Edition. 291-292.
  3. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
  4. FishBase
  5. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026.
  6. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026.
  7. Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
  8. Page, Lawrence M., Katherine E. Bemis, Thomas E. Dowling, Héctor S. Espinosa-Pérez et al., 2023: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 8th edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 37. vii + 439.
  9. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  10. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.
  11. Svensson (2012) Nordisk fisklista enligt Catalog of Fishes 2011-12-30.xslx. Excel-fil med mejl till Johan Liljeblad 2012-02-23.
  12. Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230.
  13. Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230.
  14. Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230.
  15. WoRMS Editorial Board (2017) WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species
  16. van der Laan, Richard, William N. Eschmeyer, and Ronald Fricke, 2014: Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa, vol. 3882, no. 1. 1-230.
  17. van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374
  18. van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374
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