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| image = Hirundichthys rondeletii.jpg
| image = Hirundichthys rondeletii.jpg
| image_caption = Blackwing flyingfish ''(H. rondeletii)''
| image_caption = Blackwing flyingfish ''(H. rondeletii)''
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| taxon = Hirundichthys
| authority = [[Charles Marcus Breder Jr.|Breder]], 1928
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[Actinopterygii]]
| ordo = [[Beloniformes]]
| familia = [[Exocoetidae]]
| genus = '''''Hirundichthys'''''
| genus_authority = [[Charles Marcus Breder Jr.|Breder]], 1928
| type_species = ''Exocoetus rubescens''
| type_species = ''Exocoetus rubescens''
| type_species_authority = [[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque|Rafinesque]], 1818
| type_species_authority = [[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque|Rafinesque]], 1818

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Hirundichthys
Blackwing flyingfish (H. rondeletii)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beloniformes
Family: Exocoetidae
Subfamily: Cypsellurinae
Genus: Hirundichthys
Breder, 1928
Type species
Exocoetus rubescens

Hirundichthys is a genus of flying fish. They have elongated, moderately thick, ventrally flattened bodies. The pectoral branch of the lateral line is absent. The upper jaw is not protrusible. The dorsal fin has fewer or equal (rarely one more) rays than the anal fin; the dorsal fin is low, with the anterior rays the longest, the pectoral fins are strikingly long, reaching to or almost to caudal fin base; pelvic fins are long, reaching beyond the anal fin origin, and their insertion is closer to the anal fin origin than to the pectoral fin insertion.

Species

Twelve species in this genus are recognized:[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Hirundichthys in FishBase. August 2013 version.
  2. ^ a b Shakhovskoy, I.B. & Parin, N.V. (2013): A Review of Flying Fishes of the Subgenus Hirundichthys (genus Hirundichthys, Exocoetidae). 1. Oceanic species: H. speculiger, H. indicus sp. nova. Voprosy ikhtiologii, 53 (2): 133-162.
  3. ^ a b Shakhovskoy, I.B. & Parin, N.V. (2013): A Review of Flying Fishes of the Subgenus Hirundichthys (Genus Hirundichthys, Exocoetidae). Part 2. Nerito-Oceanic Species: H. oxycephalus, H. affinis. Journal of Ichthyology, 53 (8): 509-540.