Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Exocoetidae

Flyingfishes

WoRMS 125452ITIS 165431GBIF 2968key worms:125452

2026-08-05: itis_id 165431 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Cheilopogon spilopterus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Exocoetidae — Photo · hzayachkowski · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Exocoetidae are a family of saltwater ray-finned fish in the order Beloniformes, known colloquially as flying fish or flying cod, with about 64 species in seven genera.W CalCOFI holds 1,193 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2016, as larva, across 17 taxa under it.R

1,193
observations: 1,193
records: 41
sampling events: 1951–2016
years: 1
datasets: 12
species under it: larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ichthyoplankton 41 obs · 41 events · 1951–1999 · larva
name used: Exocoetidae Flyingfishes · code 180

Under it · 6 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125452%22

Exocoetidae

Under it · 6 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.