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Beloniformes (Needle fishes) > 
Exocoetidae (Flyingfishes)						
							
							Etymology: Cheilopogon: Greek, cheilos = lip + Greek, pogon = barbed, beard (Ref. 45335).
						
					Issue   
Genus B. Mundy, pers. comm. Date Eschmeyer, pers. comm.
			
			
				
					Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range					
						Ecology					
				
				
				
					Marine;  pelagic-oceanic; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 0 - 10 m (Ref. 86942). Tropical				
				 
			
			
			
				
				
				
					Indo-Pacific:  Somalia and Madagascar to the Revillagigedo and Galapagos islands in the eastern Pacific.  Absent from the inland seas of Indonesia and from Australian waters (Ref. 27313).
				
				 
			
			
				
					Size / Weight / Age
				
				
				
					Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
 Max length : 33.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 9839)				
				 
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				Found in neritic and oceanic waters (Ref. 30573).  Capable of leaping out of the water and gliding  for considerable distances above the surface.			
			 
			
			
			
				
					Life cycle and mating behavior					
					Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae				
				
				
				
								
				
			
			 
				
				
				
					Parin, N.V., 1996. On the species composition of flying fishes (Exocoetidae) in the West-Central part of tropical Pacific. J. Ichthyol. 36(5):357-364. (Ref. 27313)
				
				 
			
			
			
							
					
						IUCN Red List Status   (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
				 
					
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
					Threat to humans  
				
				
				
					  Harmless				
				
			 
			
			
			
			
				
					Human uses  				
				
				
					Fisheries: minor commercial				
				
				
			
			
						
			
			
			
				
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					Estimates based on models				
				
				
				Preferred temperature (Ref. 
123201): 23.4 - 29.2, mean 27.5 °C (based on 36001 cells).
				
				
					
					Phylogenetic diversity index  (Ref. 
82804):  PD
50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].					
													Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00813 (0.00444 - 0.01488), b=3.06 (2.89 - 3.23), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body  (Ref. 
93245).
					
					Trophic level  (Ref. 
69278):  3.7   ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives					
						 Generation time: 1.2 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 1
 growth studies.					
						Resilience  (Ref. 
120179):  High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.8).					
											
				
									
					Fishing Vulnerability  (Ref. 
59153):  Low vulnerability (21 of 100). 
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