Butterfly flyingfish

The Butterfly flyingfish lives in the pelagic-neritic, oceanodromous, marine environment.

* Butterfly flyingfish, Cheilopogon papilio (Clark, 1936) * Smallhead flyingfish, Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus altipennis (Valenciennes, 1847) * California flyingfish, Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus More

Common names

Butterfly flyingfish in English
Exocet papillon in French (français)
Flyingfish in English
Sommerfugle-flyvefisk in Danish (dansk)
Volador in sp
Volador mariposa in Spanish (español)
帕氏须唇飞鱼 in Mandarin Chinese
帕氏鬚唇飛魚 in Mandarin Chinese

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Order : Beloniformes
Family : Exocoetidae
Genus : Cheilopogon
Species : Cheilopogon papilio
Authority : Clark, 1936

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Butterfly flyingfish (Cheilopogon papilio)