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Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus
Description
Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus (Bennett, 1831).
California Flyingfish or Smallhead Flyingfish. To 48 cm (18.9 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); Astoria, Oregon (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to southern Baja California (Parin in Fischer et al. 1995) and into Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002); Chile (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Oceanic (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) and neritic (Watson in Moser 1996); depth: surface to 10 m (33 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). Cypselurus californicus (Cooper, 1863) is a junior synonym.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Exocoetidae
- Genus
- Cheilopogon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Beloniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bennett
- Species
- pinnatibarbatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus (Bennett, 1831) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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.
- Savinykh, V. F. (1998) Nekton composition of near-surface waters of the subarctic front zone in the northwest part of the Pacific Ocean according to the data of drift-net catches. Journal of Ichthyology, 38, 18 - 27.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.