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Exocoetidae
bluntnose flyingfish
Prognichthys occidentalis
Fish Reaching Seventeen Point Nine Centimeters in North American Waters
bluntnose flyingfish is a marine fish from Western Atlantic. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 17.9 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Exocoetidae
- Genus
- Prognichthys
- Maximum length
- 17.9 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico and throughout the Caribbean to off the east coast of North America to 40°N and off South America to 40°S.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

