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Exocoetus

WoRMS 125692ITIS 165506GBIF 2368646key worms:125692
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165506 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 Exocoetus
Photo · Robert Mintern , no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Exocoetus is a genus of flying fishes. It is a bony fish.W CalCOFI holds 144 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1978 and 2006, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

144
observations
144
records
116
sampling events
1978–2006
years
1
datasets
2
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 116 obs · 116 events · 1978–2006 · larva
    name used: Exocoetus · code 158

Under it · 2 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/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125692%22