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Exocoetidae
Gyre flyingfish
Prognichthys glaphyrae
Twenty Point One Centimeters Exocoetid Fish from Mexican Waters
- Tropical
- Oceanic
- Northern Hemisphere
- Restricted distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Restricted distribution
Marine fish
MediumGyre flyingfish is known around Atlantic Ocean as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 20.1 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Exocoetidae
- Genus
- Prognichthys
- Maximum length
- 20.1 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- Atlantic Ocean: mostly restricted to cores of central oceanic gyres; in the western Atlantic, it occurs in Bermuda to 20°S but absent from the Gulf of Mexico, east coast of North America, and most of the Caribbean.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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Order
Family
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