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Oxyporhamphus micropterus

Description

Oxyporhamphus micropterus (Valenciennes, 1847).

Smallwing Flyingfish. To 22 cm (8.7 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); central Baja California (28°10’N, 115°54’W) (Personal communication:Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2008) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Allen and Robertson 1994). Epipelagic; depth: surface to 6 m (20 ft) (min.: Watson in Moser 1996; max.: Fricke et al. 2019).

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 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

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  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
  • Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
  • Fricke, R., Allen, G. R., Amon, D., Andrefouet, S., Chen, W. - J., Kinch, J., Mana, R., Russel, B. C., Tully, D. & White, W. T. (2019) Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records. Zootaxa, 4588, 1 - 360. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4588.1.1