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Fodiator rostratus
Description
Fodiator rostratus (Günther, 1866).
Pacific Flyingfish or Sharpchin Flyingfish. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL (McEachran and Fechhelm 1998). Point Conception (34°12’N, 120°57’W) (Kyle Evans, pers. comm. to M.L.) and Goleta, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Parin in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Neritic and oceanic at surface, usually in coastal waters (Watson in Moser 1996), and sometimes intertidal (Love et al. 2005).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Exocoetidae
- Genus
- Fodiator
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Beloniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- rostratus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Fodiator rostratus (Gunther, 1866) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- McEachran, J. D. & Fechhelm, J. D. (1998) Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico. Volume 1. University of Texas Press, Austin.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- 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.
- 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.
- Love, M. S., Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2005) Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Divition, Seattle, OCS Study MMS 2005 - 030 and USGS / NBII 2005 - 001.