WoRMS taxon details
Prognichthys sealei Abe, 1955
217874 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217874)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Abe, T. (1955). On a new Pacific flying fish, Prognichthys sealei, retaining five unbranched fin-rays above in the pectoral throughout life. <em>Records of Oceanographic Works in Japan.</em> 2 (1): 185-192, 1 pl. [details]
Description Found in the open ocean surface waters. Leaps out of the water and glides for considerable distances above the surface.
Description Found in the open ocean surface waters. Leaps out of the water and glides for considerable distances above the surface. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Prognichthys sealei Abe, 1955. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217874 on 2025-05-11
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Nomenclature
original description
Abe, T. (1955). On a new Pacific flying fish, Prognichthys sealei, retaining five unbranched fin-rays above in the pectoral throughout life. <em>Records of Oceanographic Works in Japan.</em> 2 (1): 185-192, 1 pl. [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]
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] 
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [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
[request]
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
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Found in the open ocean surface waters. Leaps out of the water and glides for considerable distances above the surface. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | sailor flyingfish | [details] |
| Japanese | ダルマトビ | [details] |
| Spanish | volador marinero | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Prognichthys sealei)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Prognichthys sealei, by FAO)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 37 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Prognichthys sealei)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Prognichthys sealei, by FAO)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 37 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
