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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cheilopogon heterurus

Blotchwing flyingfish

WoRMS 126382ITIS 616688GBIF 5208001key worms:126382
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2026-08-05: itis_id 616688 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Cheilopogon spilopterus
Blotchwing flyingfish40 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Cheilopogon heterurus
Photo · Yann Geshors · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Cheilopogon heterurus, the Mediterranean flyingfish, is a fish in the flying fish family Exocoetidae.W CalCOFI holds 114 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2014, as larva.R

114
observations
114
records
114
sampling events
1959–2014
years
1
datasets
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 114 obs · 114 events · 1959–2014 · larva
    name used: Cheilopogon heterurus Blotchwing flyingfish · code 184

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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:126382%22