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Blacksail Flyingfish
Cheilopogon nigricans (Bennett, 1840)
Also calledExocet africain (fra) · Iliw (tgl) · Lawin (tgl) · Malolo (smo) · letoun potemnělý (ces) · volador africano (spa)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 3. — General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas. Epipelagic in oceanic waters, 0 – 10 m depth. Marine.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
materials_examined
Status at New Ireland. New record of this taxon from New Ireland; previously misidentified from Cape Lambert- Kalili Harbour, New Ireland as Cypselurus exsiliens (non Linnaeus, 1771) by Munro (1958: 137).
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5207981.