Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus, Bennetts flying fish, is a species of flying fish which has a circumglobal distribution in tropical and subtropical seas.[1] 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.[2]

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beloniformes
Family: Exocoetidae
Genus: Cheilopogon
Species:
C. pinnatibarbatus
Binomial name
Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus
(Bennett, 1831)
Synonyms[2]
  • 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

Subspecies

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
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References
  1. Carpenter, K.E.; Livingstone, S. & Polidoro, B. (2010). "Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T155104A4708020. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T155104A4708020.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
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