Japanese flying fish or Far Eastern long-wing [1] ( lat. Cheilopogon agoo ) is a species of ray-finned fish from the family of flying fish (Exocoetidae). Epipelagic coastal schooling fish. Maximum body length 35 cm.
| Japanese flying fish |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetric |
| Infraseries : | Atheriomorphs |
| View: | Japanese flying fish |
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| International Scientific Name |
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Cheilopogon agoo ( Temminck & Schlegel , 1846 ) |
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The body is elongated, somewhat compressed from the sides. The pectoral fins extend beyond the end of the base of the dorsal fin. In the dorsal fin 10–12 soft rays, and in the anal fin 9–11 soft rays [2] . The tail fin is forked, the lower lobe is longer than the upper one.
The body color is silver-blue, the back is somewhat darker. In the middle part of the dorsal fin there is an obscure dark spot [3] .
Distributed in subtropical waters off the coast of southern Japan and Taiwan [3] .
Pelagic sea fish, lives in the coastal non-sacramental zone. It spawns from mid-April to late October. Caviar with a diameter of about 2 mm lay on algae and floating objects. On the shell of eggs there are up to 40 filiform processes [2] .
Valuable commercial fish. Catching gill and drift nets during the spawning period in early summer. In the early 2000s, world catches reached 6–9.6 thousand tons. Realized fresh. Used in Chinese medicine.
- ↑ Reshetnikov Yu. S. , Kotlyar A. N. , Russ T. S. , Shatunovsky M. I. Pyatiazychny dictionary of animal names. Fish. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V.E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., 1989. - p. 187-188. - 12 500 copies - ISBN 5-200-00237-0 .
- ↑ 1 2 Commercial fish of Russia. In two volumes / ed. O. F. Gritsenko, A. N. Kotlyar, and B. N. Koteneva. - M .: VNIRO publishing house, 2006. - T. 1. - p. 446-447. - 624 s. - ISBN 5-85382-229-2 .
- ↑ 1 2 Japanese flying fish (English) in FishBase database.