Species Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus (Bennett, 1831)

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Species Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus (Bennett, 1831)

Tallfin Flyingfish, Great Flying Fish, Great Flying-fish, Larger Flying Fish, Larger Flyingfish, Tallfin Flying Fish, White-banded Flying-fish

Exocoetus pinnatibarbatus Bennett, E.T. 1831. Characters of new genera and species of fishes of the Atlantic coast of northern Africa presented by Capt. Belcher. Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1: 145-148 [146].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Atlantic coast of North Africa.
Cypselurus pulchellus Lowe, R.T. 1841. Description of some new species of Madeiran fishes, with additional information relating to those already described. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 8: 36-39 [dated 1840] [38].
Type data:
Status unknown, Madeira.
Exocoetus altipennis Valenciennes, A. in Cuvier, G.L. & Valenciennes, A. 1847. Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Paris : Levrault Vol. 19 544 pp. pls 554-590. [109, pl. 560].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP A-9920, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
Paralectotype(s) MNHP A-9921, Indian seas.
Subsequent designation references:
Bruun, A.F. 1937. Notes sur les types des Exocets décrits par Cuvier et Valenciennes. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 9(3): 180-187 [182].
Exocoetus robustus Günther, A. 1866. Catalogue of the Fishes of the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Salmonidae, Percopsidae, Galaxidae, Mormyridae, Gymnarchidae, Esocidae, Umbridae, Scombresocidae, Cyprinodontidae, in the collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 6 368 pp. [289].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1855.9.19.1066 (figured in Whitley, G.P. 1940. Illustrations of some Australian fishes. Australian Zoologist 9(4): 397–428 figs 1–45 pl. 30 [fig. 27]), Australia (= W Australia).
Type locality references:
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 1–144 [106].
Exocoetus melanocercus Ogilby, J.D. 1885. Notes and descriptions of some rare Port Jackson fishes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 10(1): 119-123 [123].
Type data:
Holotype AM B.5965, Middle Harbour, Port Jackson, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off Swains Reef, QLD (21°S) to off Port Kembla, NSW (34°32S), and off Adelaide, SA to North West Shelf, WA; tropical, temperate, circumglobal; form from Australia and New Zealand recognised as distinct subspecies C. p. melanocerus.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, oceanic, pelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range: 0-200 m.

General References

Gomon, M.F. 1994. Families Exocoetidae, Hemiramphidae, Scomberesocidae. pp. 383-393 figs 343-351 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [386]

Gomon, M.F. 2008. Family Exocoetidae. pp. 402-405 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [404]

McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 1–144 [106] (as Cypselurus melanocercus and C. altipennis)

Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 [published as separates 1956–1961] [59] (418, as Cypselurus altipennis and p. 58, 411, as Cypselurus melanocercus)

Parin, N.V. 1973. Family Exocoetidae. pp. 263-267 in Hureau, J.-C. & Monod, T. (eds). Checklist of the Fishes of the North-Eastern Atlantic and of the Mediterranean (CLOFNAM). Paris : UNESCO Vol. 1 683 pp. (taxonomy, recognizing six subspecies, including C. p. altipennis from the southern Indian Ocean and C. p. melanocercus from eastern Australia and New Zealand)

Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [332]

Paxton, J.R., J.E. Gates, D.F. Hoese & D.J. Bray 2006. Exocoetidae. pp. 723-731 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [726]

Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. 2015. Family Exocoetidae. pp. 954-964 in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 3 pp. 577-1152. [959]

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [39] (592, as Cypsillurus melanocercus; 593, as Exonautes katoptron)