Cheilopogon heterurus (Rafinesque 1810)
- 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 heterurus
description
Blotchwing Flyingfish or Mediterranean Flyingfish. To 34.8 cm (13.7 in) SL (Parin and Beljanina 2000). Circumglobal; including various subspecies: western Pacific Ocean north to Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan (Saveliev et al. 2015); Santa Catalina Island, southern California to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Oceanic (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) and neritic (Watson in Moser 1996); depth: surface.