Species Profile
Exocoetus
Flying fish
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassOsteichthyes
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Exocoetus inhabits tropical seas.
It escapes predators by gliding.
Pelagic surface-dwelling fish.
Size & Structure
01
Streamlined body
02
Very large pectoral fins
03
Forked tail
04
Silvery colour
Exocoetus — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Present (myotomes)
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Well developed
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, single
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Branchial respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton (bony)
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Prey for marine predators
Pelagic food chain link
Predator escape specialist
Economic Importance
Fishery value
Ecological studies
Educational importance