Sailfin Flyingfish
Parexocoetus hillianus (P. H. Gosse, 1851)
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Parexocoetus hillianus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beloniformes
Family: Exocoetidae
Genus: Parexocoetus
Species:
P. hillianus
Binomial name
Parexocoetus hillianus
(Gosse, 1851)

Parexocoetus hillianus is a species of flying fish from the genus Parexocoetus.[2] It is found in the western Atlantic in the waters of the Gulf Stream off the southeastern United States and Bermuda south through the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to northern Brazil. In the eastern Atlantic a separate population, which may be a subspecies, is found from Guinea-Bissau south to Angola.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Collette, B.; Singh-Renton, S.; Robertson, R.; Marechal, J.; Aiken, K.A.; Dooley, J.; Oxenford, H.; Pina Amargos, F.; Kishore, R. (2015). "Parexocoetus hillianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T20885891A21046839. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T20885891A21046839.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Parexocoetus hilliamus". FishBase. April 2019 version.