Sailfin Flyingfish

Parexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson 1846)

Parexocoetus brachypterus (Sailfin Flyingfish) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family flyingfishes.

EOL has data for 14 attributes, including:

body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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16 cm
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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New Caledonia
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/2139685
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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marine pelagic
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000023
- Definition: The marine pelagic biome (pelagic meaning open sea) is that of the marine water column, from the surface to the greatest depths.
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has endoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002635
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Multtubovarium ryjikovi (Nikolaeva & Parukhin 1971) Pozdnyakov 1994
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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5517 m
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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28.387 degrees celsius

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of sailfin flyingfish. View this species on GBIF