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Exocoetidae
bandwing flyingfish
Cheilopogon exsiliens
Thirty Centimeters Exocoetid Fish of Mexican Waters
- Tropical
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Elongated
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Elongated
Mediumbandwing flyingfish is a marine fish from Western Atlantic. It inhabits marine waters. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 30 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Exocoetidae
- Genus
- Cheilopogon
- Maximum length
- 30 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Cape Cod, Massachusetts (USA), Bermuda and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil; rare or absent in the Caribbean Sea (Ref. 3720 ). Records from the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean need verification (Ref. 6523 ). Absent from the Caribbean (Ref. 26938 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
