Oriental Flying Gurnard

Dactyloptena orientalis (Cuvier 1829)

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Dactyloptena orientalis (Oriental Flying Gurnard) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family flying gurnards. Individuals can grow to 40.0 cm.

EOL has data for 16 attributes, including:

body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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20 cm
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Papua New Guinea
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/2088628
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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sea sand
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002118
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has ectoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002633
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Caligus dactylopteni Uma Devi & Shyamasundari 1981
has endoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002635
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Hysterothylacium zenis (Baylis 1929) Deardorff & Overstreet 1980
Total length
- URI: http://purl.org/obo/owlATOL_0001660
- Definition: length from the tip of the snout to the tip of the longer lobe of the caudal fin, usually measured with the lobes compressed along the midline. It is a straight-line measure, not measured over the curve of the body
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40.0 cm
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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300 m
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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26.525 degrees celsius

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Oriental flying gurnard. View this species on GBIF

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