WoRMS taxon details

Exocoetus monocirrhus Richardson, 1846

To FishBase images (<i>Exocoetus monocirrhus</i>, by FAO)
To FishBase images (Exocoetus monocirrhus, by FAO)

217869  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217869)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Osteichthyes (Parvphylum)
  7. Actinopterygii (Gigaclass)
  8. Actinopteri (Superclass)
  9. Teleostei (Class)
  10. Beloniformes (Order)
  11. Exocoetidae (Family)
  12. Exocoetus (Genus)
  13. Exocoetus monocirrhus (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Richardson, J. (1846). Report on the ichthyology of the seas of China and Japan. <em>Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 15th meeting [1845]:.</em> 187-320. [details] 
Description Epipelagic in oceanic and neritic waters (Ref. 9839). May leap out of the water and glide for considerable distances above...  
Description Epipelagic in oceanic and neritic waters (Ref. 9839). May leap out of the water and glide for considerable distances above the surface. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Exocoetus monocirrhus Richardson, 1846. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217869 on 2025-07-02
Date
action
by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description Richardson, J. (1846). Report on the ichthyology of the seas of China and Japan. <em>Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 15th meeting [1845]:.</em> 187-320. [details] 

original description (of Exocoetus georgianus Valenciennes, 1847) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1847). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dix-neuvième. Suite du livre dix-neuvième. Brochets ou Lucioïdes. Livre vingtième. De quelques familles de Malacoptérygiens, intermédiaires entre les Brochets et les Clupes. 19: i-xix + 1-544 + 6 pp. Pls. 554-590. [details] 

original description (of Halocypselus borodini Nichols & Breder, 1932) Nichols, J. T.; Breder, C. M. Jr. (1932). A new "two-winged" flying-fish from Mauritius. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> No. 561: 1-2. [details] 

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

context source (PeRMS) Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [details] 

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Description Epipelagic in oceanic and neritic waters (Ref. 9839). May leap out of the water and glide for considerable distances above the surface. [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
English barbel flyingfish  [details]
Japanese ハゴロモトビウオ  [details]
Spanish volador barbudo  [details]
To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Exocoetus melanopus Günther, 1868)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Exocoetus georgianus Valenciennes, 1847)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Exocoetus monocirrhus) 
To FishBase (from synonym Exocoetus georgianus Valenciennes, 1847)
To FishBase 
To FishBase (from synonym Exocoetus melanopus Günther, 1868)
To FishBase (from synonym Exocaetus monocirrhus Richardson, 1846)
To FishBase (from synonym Halocypselus borodini Nichols & Breder, 1932)
To FishBase (from synonym Exocoetus monocirrous Richardson, 1846)
To FishBase (from synonym Halacypselurus borodini Nichols & Breder, 1932)
To FishBase (from synonym Halocypselus borodoni Nichols & Breder, 1932)
To FishBase images (Exocoetus monocirrhus, by FAO) 
To GenBank (173 nucleotides; 181 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
To FishBase images (<i>Exocoetus monocirrhus</i>, by FAO)
To FishBase images (Exocoetus monocirrhus, by FAO)
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