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Cheilopogon xenopterus
Description
Cheilopogon xenopterus (Gilbert, 1890).
Sparrow Flyingfish or Whitetip Flyingfish. To 22 cm (8.7 in) TL (Parin in Fischer et al. 1995). Southernmost Baja California (Robertson and Allen 2008) to at least Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Surface to 5 m (17 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Exocoetidae
- Genus
- Cheilopogon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Beloniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gilbert
- Species
- xenopterus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cheilopogon xenopterus (Gilbert, 1890) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
- Chirichigno, F. N. (1974) Clave para identificar los peces marinos del Peru. Instituto del Mar del Peru Informe, No. 44.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.