pinnatibarbatus, Exocoetus Bennett [E. T.] 1831:146 [Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1830-31 (pt 1); ref. 5778] Atlantic coast of northern Africa. No types known. •Valid as Cypselurus pinnatibarbatus (Bennett 1831) -- (Gibbs & Staiger 1970:457 [ref. 7741], Kido in Amaoka et al. 1983:99, 188 [ref. 8379]). •Valid as Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus (Bennett 1831), but a valid subspecies pinnatibarbatus (Bennett 1831) -- (Kharin & Saveliev 2011:555 [ref. 32456], Bañón & Maño 2021:63 [ref. 38883]). •Valid as Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus (Bennett 1831) -- (Parin 1973:264 [ref. 7191], Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986:615 [ref. 13676], Paxton et al. 1989:332 [ref. 12442], Paulin et al. 1989:143 [ref. 24556], Parin & Gibbs 1990:586 [ref. 16545], Gomon et al. 1994:386 [ref. 22532], Andrew et al. 1995:14 [ref. 38009], Santos et al. 1997:68 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:63 [ref. 24952], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:172 [ref. 25013], Afonso et al. 1999:83 [ref. 25466], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:68 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004:100 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:65 [ref. 37547], Paxton et al. 2006:726 [ref. 29073], Wirtz et al. 2007:27 [ref. 30263], Gomon 2008:404 [ref. 30616], Page et al. 2013:101 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2014:4 [ref. 33516], Stewart & Struthers 2015:959 [ref. 34274], Parin & Shakhovskoy 2016:2145 [ref. 34602], Kells et al. 2016:118 [ref. 35888], Fricke et al. 2018:103 [ref. 35805], Brown et al. 2019:165 [ref. 36444], Burton & Lea 2019:54 [ref. 37205], Carneiro et al. 2019:200 [ref. 37250], Parin et al. 2019:180 [ref. 37342], Reiner 2019:135 [ref. 38139], Love et al. 2021:93 [ref. 39279], Carvalho-Filho 2023:89 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus (Bennett 1831). Exocoetidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.