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Hirundichthys speculiger
Description
* Hirundichthys speculiger (Valenciennes, 1847).
Mirrorwing Flyingfish. To about 31 cm (12.2 in) TL (Parin in Carpenter 2003). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southeast of southern Kuril Islands (42°00’N, 147°00’W) (Saveliev et al. 2015); just south of Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California and westward well offshore (Parin in Fischer et al. 1995) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Primarily oceanic (Watson in Moser 1996); depth: surface to 20 m (66 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).
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
- Hirundichthys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Beloniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Valenciennes
- Species
- speculiger
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hirundichthys speculiger (Valenciennes, 1847) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Carpenter, K. E. (Ed.). (2003) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 1. Mollusca, Crustacea, Hagfishes, Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras. Volume 2. Bony Fishes Part 1 (Acipenseridae to Grammatidae). Volume 3. Bony Fishes Part 2 (Opistognathidae to Molidae), Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication, No. 5. FAO, Rome. [Date on cover is 2002, but publication date is 2003.]
- 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
- 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.
- Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.