atrisignis, Cypsilurus Jenkins [O. P.] 1903:436, Pl. 3 [Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission v. 22 (1902); ref. 2341] Honolulu, Oahu Island, Hawaiian Islands. Holotype (unique): USNM 50713. Type catalog: Collette et al. 1992:6 [ref. 19410]. Original genus should have been spelled Cypselurus. •Valid as Cypselurus atrisignis Jenkins 1903 -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:81 [ref. 6441], Nakabo 2000:556 [ref. 25086], Nakabo 2002:556 [ref. 26001]). •Valid as Cheilopogon atrisignis (Jenkins 1903) -- (Abe 1994:1249 [ref. 23438], Parin in Fischer et al. 1995:1097 [ref. 22829], Parin 1996:305 [ref. 23179], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:250 [ref. 24023], Anderson et al. 1998:22 [ref. 23611], Parin 1999:2169 [ref. 24786], Parin in Randall & Lim 2000:600 [ref. 25122], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S100 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:615 [ref. 27495] dated 1904, Randall et al. 2004:9 [ref. 27624] dated 1904, Nelson et al. 2004:100 [ref. 27807], Mundy 2005:284 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:725 [ref. 29073], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:190 [ref. 30957] dated 1904, Fricke et al. 2011:370 [ref. 31242], Page et al. 2013:101 [ref. 32708], Fourriére et al. 2016:455 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:607 [ref. 34923], Fricke et al. 2019:77 [ref. 36673], Jayakumar et al. 2019:701 [ref. 37111], Shakhovskoy & Bogorodsky 2021:382 [ref. 38589], Grove et al. 2022:19 [ref. 41326], Shakhovskoy & Collette 2022:343 [ref. 39717], Page et al. 2023:150 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Cheilopogon atrisignis (Jenkins 1903). Exocoetidae. Distribution: Indo-Pacific: East Africa, Socotra (Yemen) and Madagascar east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to southern Japan, south to New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands; eastern Pacific: Revillagigedo Archipelago (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). IUCN (2024): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.