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Australasian flying fish (Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus melanocercus)
| Subject: | Australasian flying fish (Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus melanocercus)
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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
Exocoetus pinnatibarbatus Bennett, 1831
Cypselurus pinnatibarbatus (Bennett, 1831)
Cypselurus pulchellus Lowe, 1841
Exocoetus lineatus Valenciennes, 1847
Cypselurus lineatus (Valenciennes, 1847)
Exocoetus orbignianus Valenciennes, 1847
Exocoetus robustus Günther, 1866
Exocoetus fernandezianus Philippi, 1895
Cypselurus minos Nichols & Breder, 1930 |
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