WoRMS taxon details
Prognichthys gibbifrons (Valenciennes, 1847)
277924 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:277924)
accepted
Species
Exocoetus gibbifrons Valenciennes, 1847 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Exocoetus gibbifrons 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]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Prognichthys gibbifrons (Valenciennes, 1847). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=277924 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Exocoetus gibbifrons 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]
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] 
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 (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | gyre flyingfish | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Exocoetus gibbifrons Valenciennes, 1847)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Prognichthys gibbifrons)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Exocoetus gibbifrons Valenciennes, 1847)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Exocoetus gibbifrons Valenciennes, 1847)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Prognichthys gibbifrons)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Exocoetus gibbifrons Valenciennes, 1847)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Exocoetus gibbifrons Valenciennes, 1847)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
