Flying Fish
the name given to more than one fish which, having extended fins, leaps from the water and, after a more or less lengthened flight, drops into it again. The fins seem to act as parachutes rather than as wings. The common flying fish is Exocætus volitans.
It belongs to the family Esocide. Another closely allied species is E. exiliens, the greater flying fish. Both have straggled to the North Atlantic waters.
They are abundant in the Mediterranean.