Species: Oxyporhamphus similis, False halfbeak, Smallwing flyingfish
Oxyporhamphus similis Bruun, 1935
False halfbeak, Smallwing flyingfish
Elongate, broadly cylindrical body; head short, snout short and blunt; mouth small, top jaw short, triangular, lower jaw slightly projecting in adult, extending into a short beak in juvenile; gill rakers 30-35; fins without spines; dorsal rays 13-15; anal rays 14-15; pectorals of moderate length, ~1/3 SL, reaching to origin of pelvic fins, 11-13 rays; pelvics short, their origin nearer anal origin than pectoral base; tail strongly forked, but lower lobe only slightly larger than upper lobe in adult (more asymmetric in juvenile); lateral line low on the body; scales large, smooth, easily shed; predorsal scales 28-33.
Dark blue to blackish on back and upper side, silvery below; dorsal, caudal, pectoral, and outer half of pelvic fins dusky blackish.
Size: to 22.5 cm.
Habitat: surface pelagic, oceanic.
Depth: 0-5 m?
Atlantic; 40N to 20S.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Offshore Only
- Offshore
- Water Column Position
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- Water column only
- Surface
- Near Surface
- Habitat
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- Water column
- FishBase Habitat
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- Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Zooplankton
- Pelagic jellyfish/ctenophores
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- No pelagic phase
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- Transatlantic (East+West Atlantic)
- Regional Endemism
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- All species..
- Also in Brazil
- Extends N + S of GC
- GC non-endemic
- Extends North of GC
- Continent
- Extends South of GC
- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Temperate (>35N)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 22.5
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
