Australasian flying fish (Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus melanocercus)

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Australasian flying fish (Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus melanocercus)

Title : Gypselurus melanocercus (error. Cypselurus melanocercus)
Creator: L. T. Griffin, del. Oct. 1921 (Signature)
Artist: Louis Thomas Griffin
CITATION: Gypselurus melanocercus,PD-1971-5-53
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AGypselurus_melanocercus_%2848753861722%29.jpg

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus, Bennett's flying fish, is a species of flying fish which has a circumglobal distribution in tropical and subtropical seas. It is an epiplegaic species which feeds on zooplankton and small fishes and is capable of leaping out of the water and gliding over the surface.

There are four subspecies of this widely distributed flying fish:

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus pinnatibarbatus (Bennett, 1831) (Bennett's flyingfish) - Atlantic and western Indian Ocean

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus californicus (J. G. Cooper, 1863) (California flyingfish) - Eastern Pacific Ocean, from Oregon to Baja California

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus japonicus (V. Franz, 1910) - north western Pacific Ocean, around Japan

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus melanocercus (J. D. Ogilby, 1885) (Australasian flying fish) - southwestern Pacific, eastern Australia and New Zealand

Order: Beloniformes
Family: Exocoetidae
Genus: Cheilopogon
Species: Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus (Bennett, 1831)
Synonyms

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