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GBIF·9591512speciesAnimalia99 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderBeloniformes
  4. ›familyExocoetidae
  5. ›genusHirundichthys
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Atlantic Blackwing Flyingfish

Hirundichthys volador (Jordan, 1884)

Also calledexocet à nageoires noires (fra) · volador ala negra del Atlántico (spa)

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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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

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Hirundichthys volador in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 9591512.