Cypselurus
Cypselurus | |
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Yellow-wing Flying Fish () | |
Scientific classification | |
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 , 1825[1]
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Species | |
Twelve recognized - see text. |
Cypselurus is a genus of flying fish in the family Exocoetidae.
Species[]
Currently, there are twelve recognized species in this genus:[2]
- (Nichols & , 1935) — narrowhead flying fish
- Cypselurus callopterus (Günther, 1866) — ornamented flying fish, beautyfin flying fish
- (Mitchill, 1815) — clearwing flying fish
- (Bleeker, 1853) — darkbar flying fish
- (T. Abe, 1953)
- (Parin, 1861)
- (Günther, 1889) — Pharao flying fish
- (Bleeker, 1865) — large-scale flying fish
- (Bleeker, 1865) — black-finned flying fish
- (Valenciennes, 1847) - yellow-wing flying fish
- (Valenciennes, 1847) — short-nosed flying fish
- (T. Abe, 1953)
See also[]
- 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[]
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- Cypselurus
- Cypsellurinae
- Taxa named by William John Swainson
- Marine fish genera
- Beloniformes stubs