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Hirundichthys speculiger (Mirrorwing flyingfish; Mirrorfinned flying-fish; Flyingfish; Cuvier's flying fish; Black-finned flying-fish; Flying fish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The mirrorwing flyingfish (Hirundichthys speculiger) is a flyingfish of the family, Exocoetidae and the genus Hirundichthys. It was first described by the French Zoologist, Achille Valenciennes in a 22 volume work titled Histoire naturelle des poissons (Natural History of Fishes), which was a collaboration with Georges Cuvier.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Prey / Diet

Oncaea media[2]
Oncaea mediterranea[2]
Oncaea venusta[2]
Triconia conifera[2]

Predators

Coryphaena hippurus (Mahi-mahi)[3]
Phaethon rubricauda (Red-tailed Tropicbird)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Deretrema fusillus[2]
Didymodiclinus cypseluri[5]
Didymodiclinus spilonotopteri[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Olson, Robert J., and Felipe Galvan-Magana. "Food habits and consumption rates of common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) in the eastern Pacific Ocean." Fishery Bulletin 100.2 (2002): 279+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 July 2010
♦ 4Seasonal and inter-annual variation in the feeding ecology of a tropical oceanic seabird, the red-tailed tropicbird Phaethon rubricauda, M. Le Corre, Y. Cherel, F. Lagarde, H. Lormée, P. Jouventin, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 255: 289–301, 2003
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0