Cypselurus is a genus of flying fish in the family Exocoetidae. They are found across Indo-Pacific to western Atlantic ocean.
Cypselurus | |
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Yellow-wing Flying Fish (C. poecilopterus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Beloniformes |
Family: | Exocoetidae |
Subfamily: | Cypsellurinae |
Genus: | Cypselurus Swainson, 1838 |
Type species | |
Exocoetus appendiculatus, a synonym of Cypselurus comatus | |
Species | |
Twelve recognized - see text. |
Species
editCurrently, there are twelve recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Cypselurus angusticeps (Nichols & Breder, 1935) — narrowhead flying fish
- Cypselurus callopterus (Günther, 1866) — ornamented flying fish, beautyfin flying fish
- Cypselurus comatus (Mitchill, 1815) — clearwing flying fish
- Cypselurus hexazona (Bleeker, 1853) — darkbar flying fish
- Cypselurus hiraii (T. Abe, 1953)
- Cypselurus longibarbus (Parin, 1861)
- Cypselurus naresii (Günther, 1889) — Pharao flying fish
- Cypselurus oligolepis (Bleeker, 1865) — large-scale flying fish
- Cypselurus opisthopus (Bleeker, 1865) — black-finned flying fish
- Cypselurus poecilopterus (Valenciennes, 1847) - yellow-wing flying fish
- Cypselurus simus (Valenciennes, 1847) — short-nosed flying fish
- Cypselurus starksi (T. Abe, 1953)
See also
edit- Shakhovskoy, I.B., and N.V. Parin (2019). A review of the flying fish genus Cypselurus (Beloniformes: Exocoetidae). Part 1. Revision of the subgenus Zonocypselurus Parin and Bogorodsky, 2011 with descriptions of one new subgenus, four new species and two new subspecies and reinstatement of one species as valid. Zootaxa 4589(1): 1–71. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4589.1.1
References
edit- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Cypselurus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). Species of Cypselurus in FishBase. April 2014 version.