Biology:Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus
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Short description: Species of fish
Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Beloniformes |
Family: | Exocoetidae |
Genus: | Cheilopogon |
Species: | C. pinnatibarbatus
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Binomial name | |
Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus (Bennett, 1831)
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Synonyms[2] | |
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Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus, Bennett's flying fish, is a species of flying fish which has a circumglobal distribution in tropical and subtropical seas.[1] It is an epiplegaic species which feeds on zooplankton and small fishes and is capable of leaping out of the water and gliding over the surface.[2]
Subspecies
There are four subspecies of this widely distributed flying fish:
- Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus pinnatibarbatus (Bennett, 1831) (Bennett's flyingfish) - Atlantic and western Indian Ocean
- Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus californicus (J. G. Cooper, 1863) (California flyingfish) - Eastern Pacific Ocean, from Oregon to Baja California
- Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus japonicus (V. Franz, 1910) - north western Pacific Ocean, around Japan
- Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus melanocercus (J. D. Ogilby, 1885) (Australasian flying fish) - southwestern Pacific, eastern Australia and New Zealand
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Carpenter, K.E.; Livingstone, S.; Polidoro, B. (2010). "Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T155104A4708020. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T155104A4708020.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/155104/4708020. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q10448688 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus.
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