volitans, Exocoetus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:316 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Open ocean off Europe and America. Syntypes: ZMUU Linn. Coll. 59 (1). Type catalog: Lönnberg 1896:25 [ref. 23530], Wheeler 1991:167, Fig. 9 [ref. 20102]. •Valid as Exocoetus volitans Linnaeus 1758 -- (Parin 1973:263 [ref. 7191], Dor 1984:60 [ref. 29757], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:80 [ref. 6441], Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986:616 [ref. 13676], Heemstra & Parin 1986:394 [ref. 6293], Robins & Ray 1986:103 [ref. 23100], Paxton et al. 1989:333 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:50 [ref. 14125], Winterbottom et al. 1989:15 [ref. 13251], Parin & Gibbs 1990:587 [ref. 16545], Cervigón 1992:319 [ref. 23827], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:146 [ref. 25472], Goren & Dor 1994:15 [ref. 25356], Gomon et al. 1994:387 [ref. 22532], Allen & Robertson 1994:89 [ref. 22193], Parin in Fischer et al. 1995:1101 [ref. 22829], Parin 1996:301 [ref. 23179], Santos et al. 1997:68 [ref. 23531], Chen et al. 1997:26 [ref. 26476], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:247 [ref. 24023], Arruda 1997:63 [ref. 24952], Monteiro et al. 1998:400 [ref. 23732], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:949 [ref. 23897], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:176 [ref. 24555], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:8 [ref. 24670], Sarkar et al. 1998:131 [ref. 24988], Fricke 1999:122 [ref. 24106], Parin 1999:2176 [ref. 24786], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:172 [ref. 25013], Mishra et al. 1999:84 [ref. 25315], Afonso et al. 1999:83 [ref. 25466], Nakabo 2000:553 [ref. 25086], Parin in Randall & Lim 2000:600 [ref. 25122], Parin & Shakhovskoy 2000:S33 [ref. 25770], Hutchins 2001:24 [ref. 25847], Kim et al. 2001:107 [ref. 25722], Bilecenoglu et al. 2002:175 [ref. 26753], Nakabo 2002:553 [ref. 26001], Youn 2002:221, 547 [ref. 26218], Parin 2003:1128 [ref. 27018], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:68 [ref. 27192], Myers & Donaldson 2003:615 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:68 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:9 [ref. 27624], Nelson et al. 2004:100 [ref. 27807], Heemstra et al. 2004:3317 [ref. 27945], Mundy 2005:288 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:729 [ref. 29073], Wirtz et al. 2007:27 [ref. 30263], Gomon 2008:404 [ref. 30616], Fricke et al. 2009:31 [ref. 30213], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:190 [ref. 30957], Fricke et al. 2011:370 [ref. 31242]). Current status: Valid as Exocoetus volitans Linnaeus 1758. Exocoetidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas (including Red Sea and Hawaiian Islands). Habitat: marine.