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Bennett's Flyingfish
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Bennett's Flyingfish

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus, Bennetts flying fish, is a species of flying fish which has a circumglobal distribution in tropical and subtropical seas. It is an epiplegaic species which feeds on zooplankton and small fishes and is capable of leaping out of the water and gliding over the surface.

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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 97317.