ATHERINIFORMES

Uruguay 1968Peru 2004Uruguay 2005
Silversides
Basilichthys bonariensis
(Atherinidae)
Pejerrey Fish
Odontesthes regia
(Atherinidae)
Pejerrey Fish
Odontesthes bonariensis
(Atherinidae)
Hungary 1962East Germany 1966Japan 2012
Lyretail Panchax
Aphyosemion australe
(Nothobranchiidae)
Twostripe Lyretail
Aphyosemion coeruleum
(Nothobranchiidae)
Japanese Killifish
Oryzias latipes
(Nothobranchiidae)
Vietnam 1984North Korea1966
Flyingfish
Cypselurus spilopterus
(Exocoetidae)
Pacific Saury
Cololabis saira
(Scomberesocidae)


Japanese Killifish
Oryzias latipes
(Nothobranchiidae)
(ATHERINIFORMES)
Flyingfish
Cypselurus agoo agoo
(Exocoetidae)
(ATHERINIFORMES)


Killifish is full length three or four cm. The tail fin is square-built, and it is a color of the body of the yellowish-brown. The egg laid eggs in early in the morning in from April to October just sticks in the vicinity of a female reproduction aperture in the breeding season and climbs all over waterweeds with the hair of the egg afterwards.
Flyingfish is about 30cm full length, the back is deep blue, the stomach do a color of the body of the silver-white. It is a characteristic to have a remarkably big pectoral to fly it. One pair of big ventrals to be located in slightly backward of the body help gliding. In addition, the tail fin has a long lobe of the lung, and life starts power to jump out from approach run in the sea inside and the surface of the water to the air. The flying distance amounts to 400 m.

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