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Atlantic Sailfin Flyingfish
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Other fish (coast and sea)

Atlantic Sailfin Flyingfish

Parexocoetus hillianus (Gosse, 1851)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishAtlantic Sailfin Flyingfish
Dutch—
SpanishVolador hiliano
Chinese希尔拟飞鱼
Scientific nameParexocoetus hillianus (Gosse, 1851)

About this species

Parexocoetus hillianus is a species of flying fish from the genus Parexocoetus. It is found in the western Atlantic in the waters of the Gulf Stream off the southeastern United States and Bermuda south through the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to northern Brazil. In the eastern Atlantic a separate population, which may be a subspecies, is found from Guinea-Bissau south to Angola.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
OrderBeloniformes
FamilyExocoetidae
GenusParexocoetus

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