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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
      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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