Cheilopogon papilio (Clark 1936)
- 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 papilio
description
Butterfly Flyingfish. To 22.2 cm (8.7 in) TL (John Snow, pers. comm. to M. L.). Southern Baja California (27 ° 28 ’ N, 115 ° 08 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Gulf of California to central America (Parin in Fischer et al. 1995). Depth: surface to 20 m (66 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).
Name
- Homonyms
- Cheilopogon papilio (Clark 1936)