Parexocoetus brachypterus

Parexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson, 1846). Sailfin Flyingfish. To 22.8 cm (9 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Indo-Pacific (Parin et al. 2019); western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); souther...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Beloniformes
Exocoetidae
Parexocoetus
Parexocoetus brachypterus
Yukon
Baja
Pacific
Milton
Scripps
Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5603710
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603710
Description
Summary:Parexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson, 1846). Sailfin Flyingfish. To 22.8 cm (9 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Indo-Pacific (Parin et al. 2019); western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); southern Baja California (23°12’N, 110°28’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to at least Ecuador (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Depth; at least at surface. While Fricke et al. (2020) imply this species is not in eastern Pacific, that is in error. 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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