exsiliens, Exocoetus Linnaeus [C.] 1771:529 [Mantissa Plantarum altera; ref. 13301] Atlantic. Holotype (unique): Zool. Soc. Lond. 165 (whole, dry, poor condition). Type catalog: Wheeler 1985:40 [ref. 20705]. Original genus as Exocoethus. Also spelled exiliens by authors, which was the spelling used by Bonnaterre 1788:181 [ref. 4940] and Gmelin 1789:1400 [ref. 18139]. Spelled exisilines in Walbaum 1792:50 [ref. 4572] but corrected in emendanda (p. 720) to exsiliens. •Valid as Cypselurus exsiliens (Linnaeus 1771) -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:81 [ref. 6441], Robins & Ray 1986:104 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:81 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:318 [ref. 23827], Monteiro et al. 1998:400 [ref. 23732], Nakabo 2000:557 [ref. 25086] as exiliens, Nakabo 2002:557 [ref. 26001] as exiliens). •Valid as Cheilopogon exsiliens [sometimes as exiliens] (Linnaeus 1771) -- (Parin 1973:264 [ref. 7191], Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986:613 [ref. 13676], Parin 1996:304 [ref. 23179], Parin & Belyanina 1996:754 [ref. 24664], Santos et al. 1997:68 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:63 [ref. 24952], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:945 [ref. 23897], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:170 [ref. 25013], Parin 2003:1122 [ref. 27018], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:68 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004:100 [ref. 27807], Golani 2005:29 [ref. 37112], Page et al. 2013:101 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2014:4 [ref. 33516], Parin & Shakhovskoy 2016:2139 [ref. 34602], Carneiro et al. 2019:200 [ref. 37250], Parin et al. 2019:160 [ref. 37342], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:300 [ref. 38945], Golani 2021:32 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:53 [ref. 39014], Carvalho-Filho 2023:88 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:150 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Cheilopogon exsiliens (Linnaeus 1771). Exocoetidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Atlantic. Habitat: marine.