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Cheilopogon heterurus
Description
Cheilopogon heterurus (Rafinesque, 1810).
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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Exocoetidae
- Genus
- Cheilopogon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Beloniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Rafinesque
- Species
- heterurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cheilopogon heterurus (Rafinesque, 1810) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Parin, N. V. & Beljanina, T. N. (2000) Comparative description of two close Atlantic flying fish species - Cheilopogon heterurus and Ch. melanurus (Exocoetidae). Journal of Ichthyology, 40, 213 - 229.
- Saveliev, P. A., Kharin, V. E. & Balanov, A. A. (2015) Species composition and new findings of flying fishes (Exocoetidae) in Russian waters. Journal of Ichthyology, 55, 22 - 29. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945215010178
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.