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Mirrorwing Flyingfish
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Mirrorwing Flyingfish

Hirundichthys speculiger

The mirrorwing flyingfish (Hirundichthys speculiger) is a flyingfish of the family Exocoetidae. 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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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 120658.