FB-7457 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=7457 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Beloniformes Exocoetidae Hirundichthys Hirundichthys affinis (Günther, 1866) Avuador-da-pesca Holandês Peixe-avuador-pequeno Peixe-voador Peixe-voador-andorinha Voador Voador-comum Voador-holandes Firvinget flyvefisk Fliegender Hering Flugfisch Meerschwalbe Schwalbenfisch Flying fish Flyingfish Fourwing flyingfish Four-wing Flyingfish Rondelet's flying fish Exocet hirondelle Hareng volant Hirondelle de mer Poisson volant Volant Tsumajiro-tobiuo Arangola Golondrina de mar Oronol Pez volador Volador Volador de 4 alas Volador golondrina Fleerchi Vliegende vis 斑翼文鰩魚 斑翼文鳐鱼 Exocoetus affinis Günther, 1866 Exocoetus roberti Müller & Troschel, 1848 Exocoetus volitans (non Linnaeus, 1758) Exonautes affinis (Günther, 1866) 1993-02-20 2017-02-17 Breder, C.M. and D.E. Rosen0 Modes of reproduction in fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey. 941 p. 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Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=7457 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Hiaff_u0.gif http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/gif/tn_Hiaff_u0.gif FB-GeneralDescr-7457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Liza Q. Agustin 1993-02-20 00:00:00 2017-02-17 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=7457 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Occurs in surface waters both near and far from the coast (Ref. 5217). Forms schools. Capable of leaping out and gliding for long distances above the water. Seasonal variation in abundance was noted in the eastern Caribbean countries, a phenomenon that may be due to post-spawning mortality (Ref. 6838). The most important commercial fish species of the eastern Caribbean (Ref. 6504). Considered a good food fish; marketed fresh. Gibbs, R.H. Jr. 1978 Exocoetidae. In W. Fischer (ed.) FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Western Central Atlantic (Fishing Area 31). Vol. 2. pag.var. (Ref. 3720) FB-DiagnosticDescr-7457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Crispina B. Binohlan 1994-04-16 00:00:00 2012-12-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=7457 Body elongate, thick, somewhat flattened ventrally; snout shorter than eye, blunt; palatine teeth usually absent; dorsal and anal fins set far back on body, their bases short; dorsal fin low, rays at anterior end the longest; anal fin origin slightly before, or 1 or 2 rays behind dorsal fin origin; pectoral fins strikingly long, 60 to 70 % of SL, only first ray unbranched; pelvic fins large, reaching well beyond anal fin origin; more than 25 scale rows of predorsal scales; dorsally, the color is usually iridescent blue or green in life; dorsal fin colorless or only slightly pigmented; pectoral fins dark, with a pale basal triangle and a narrow white margin (on trailing edge when extended) (Ref. 3720). Gibbs, R.H. Jr. 1978 Exocoetidae. In W. Fischer (ed.) FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Western Central Atlantic (Fishing Area 31). Vol. 2. pag.var. (Ref. 3720) FB-Morphology-7457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Crispina B. Binohlan 1994-04-16 00:00:00 2012-12-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=7457 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 11 - 12 Gibbs, R.H. Jr. 1978 Exocoetidae. In W. Fischer (ed.) FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Western Central Atlantic (Fishing Area 31). Vol. 2. pag.var. (Ref. 3720) FB-Distribution-7457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Liza Q. Agustin 1993-02-20 00:00:00 2022-08-20 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=7457 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats Eastern Atlantic: Guinea to Angola. Western Atlantic: Gulf Stream off Virginia, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to northern Brazil (Ref. 7251), including the Caribbean Sea (Ref. 3720). Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951). Parin, N.V. and R.H. Gibbs Jr. 1990 Exocoetidae. p. 583-591. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 4498) FB-Uses-7457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Liza Q. Agustin 1993-02-20 00:00:00 2017-02-17 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=7457 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat fisheries: commercial; bait: usually Mahon, R. 1989 Developing a management strategy for the flying fishery of the eastern Caribbean. Proc. Gulf Caribb. Fish. Inst. 39:389-403. (Ref. 6504) Oxenford, H.A., R. Mahon and W. Hunte (eds.) 1993 The eastern Caribbean flyingfish project. OECS Fish. Rep. No. 9. 171 p. (Ref. 6838) FB-Migration-7457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Liza Q. Agustin 1993-02-20 00:00:00 2017-02-17 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=7457 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Oceanodromous. Migrating within oceans typically between spawning and different feeding areas, as tunas do. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover more than 100 km. Riede, K. 2004 Global register of migratory species - from global to regional scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn, Germany. 329 p. (Ref. 51243) FB-LifeCycle-7457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Crispina B. Binohlan 1993-02-20 00:00:00 2017-02-17 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org//Reproduction/FishReproSummary.php?ID=7457&StockCode=7759 Spawns on the water surface and to a depth of 20 m (Ref. 6834). Post-spawning mortality may explain the disappearance of mature cohorts at the close of the spawning season in June (Ref. 6838). Oxenford, H.A., R. Mahon and W. Hunte (eds.) 1993 The eastern Caribbean flyingfish project. OECS Fish. Rep. No. 9. 171 p. (Ref. 6838) FB-TrophicStrategy-7457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1997-04-07 00:00:00 2000-03-09 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public affinis http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Migration Feeds on fish and copepods (Ref. 8995). Gillett, R. and J. Ianelli 1991 Aspects of the biology and fisheries of flyingfish in the Pacific Islands. Field Document 91/7. FAO/UNDP Regional Fisheries Support Programme, Suva, Fiji. (Ref. 8995) FB-Size-7457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Liza Q. Agustin 1993-02-20 00:00:00 2017-02-17 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=7457 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size 33.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 109257)); max. reported age: 1 years (Ref. 6503) Carpenter, K.E. and N. De Angelis (eds.) 2016 The living marine resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Vol. 3: Bony fishes part 1 (<i>Elopiformes to Scorpaeniformes</i>). FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes, Rome, FAO. pp. 1511-2350. (Ref. 109257) Campana, S.E., H.A. Oxenford and J.N. Smith 1993 Radiochemical determination of longevity in flyingfish <i>Hirundichthys affinis</i> using Th-228/Ra-228. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 100:211-219. (Ref. 6503) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-7457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Liza Q. Agustin 1993-02-20 00:00:00 2017-02-17 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=7457 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat pelagic-neritic; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); marine; depth range 0 - 100 m (Ref. 5217) Riede, K. 2004 Global register of migratory species - from global to regional scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn, Germany. 329 p. (Ref. 51243) Cervigón, F., R. Cipriani, W. Fischer, L. Garibaldi, M. Hendrickx, A.J. Lemus, R. Márquez, J.M. Poutiers, G. Robaina and B. Rodriguez 1992 Fichas FAO de identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Guía de campo de las especies comerciales marinas y de aquas salobres de la costa septentrional de Sur América. FAO, Rome. 513 p. Preparado con el financiamento de la Comisión de Comunidades Europeas y de NORAD. (Ref. 5217)