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Cheilopogon atrisignis
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Cheilopogon atrisignis

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Cheilopogon spilonotopterus
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Cheilopogon spilonotopterus
Cheilopogon spilonotopterus
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Cheilopogon spilonotopterus

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus californicus
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Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus californicus
Cheilopogon papilio
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Cheilopogon papilio

Cheilopogon xenopterus
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Cheilopogon xenopterus
Cheilopogon dorsomacula
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Cheilopogon dorsomacula

Cheilopogon
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Cheilopogon
Kinds
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Overview
Main identification features
  • pectoral: reaches past dorsal fin 1st ray unbranched
  • jaws = or lower longer
  • pelvics: long, origin near anal fin origin
  • anal fin origin under/behind 3rd dorsal fin ray
CHEILOPOGON

FLYINGFISHES

Pectoral reaches past anal base; no branch of lateral line to origin of pectoral; pelvic fin with origin nearer anal origin than pectoral base, fin long, reaches past anal origin; anal origin under or behind 3rd dorsal ray; 1st (and sometimes 2nd) pectoral ray unbranched; jaws ~equal length, or lower a little longer, top one not protrusible; jaw teeth with 1 point, sometimes with smaller points on sides; juveniles with 2 fused barbels under chin.

A circumglobal, tropical to temperate genus with ~25 species; 6 species (2 Indo-Pacific, 1 Pacific, 1 central and eastern Pacific, and 2 endemic to the eastern Pacific) in our region.


References
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  • Gotshall, D.W., 1996., Fishes of Rocas Alijos. In Rocas Alijos. Ed. R. W. Schmieder. Cornell Expeditions., Kluwer Academic Publishers: 347-354.
  • Jenkins, O. P., 1903., Report on collections of fishes made in the Hawaiian Islands, with descriptions of new species., Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., 22:415-511.
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  • Lopez , M. I. and Bussing, W. A., 1982., Lista provisional de los peces marinos de la Costa Rica., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 30(1):5-26.
  • Love, M.S., Mecklenburg, C.W., Mecklenburg, T.A., Thorsteinson, L.K., 2005., es of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Artic Ocena species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon border., U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, 288pp.
  • Ricker, K.E., 1959., Fishes collected from the Revillagigedo Islands during the 1954-1958 cruises of the "Marijean."., Univ. Brit. Columbia Inst. Fish., Mus. Contrib., 4:10pp.
  • Robertson , D.R. and Allen, G.A., 1996., Zoogeography of the shorefish fauna of Clipperton Atoll., Coral Reefs, 15:121-131.
  • Snodgrass , R. E. and Heller, E., 1905., Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos expedition, 1898-1899. XVII. Shorefishes of the Revillagigedo, Clipperton, Cocos and Galapagos Island., Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 6:333-427.
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