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Exocoetidae
sailfin flyingfish
Parexocoetus brachypterus
Twenty Centimeters Exocoetid Fish of the Caribbean Sea
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- East Asia
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
- Elongated
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Elongated
Mediumsailfin flyingfish is a marine fish of Western Atlantic. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 20 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Exocoetidae
- Genus
- Parexocoetus
- Maximum length
- 20 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: northeastern Florida, USA and the Bahamas to Brazil (Ref. 7251 ); common in Caribbean Sea and Lesser Antilles area; less common in the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf Stream and the western Sargasso Sea (Ref. 3720 ). Eastern Atlantic: Guinea to Angola (Ref. 4498 ). Indo-Pacific: widespread from East Africa, including the Red Sea (Ref. 26165 ) to southern Japan, Hawaii, the Marquesas, and Queensland (Australia); separate population in the eastern tropical Pacific (Bay of Panama).
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