dorsomacula, Cypsilurus furcatus Fowler [H. W.] 1944:358, Fig. 116 [Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia No. 6; ref. 1448] Southwest of Colima, Mexico [eastern Pacific], 18°00'N, 105°47'W. Holotype (unique): ANSP 70024. Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:102 [ref. 13621]. Original genus should have been spelled Cypselurus. •Valid as Cheilopogon dorsomacula (Fowler 1944) -- (Parin in Fischer et al. 1995:1097 [ref. 22829], Parin 1996:302 [ref. 23179], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:252 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:177 [ref. 24555], Parin 1999:2170 [ref. 24786], Myers & Donaldson 2003:615 [ref. 27495], Nelson et al. 2004:100 [ref. 27807], Mundy 2005:284 [ref. 28379], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:190 [ref. 30957], Fricke et al. 2011:370 [ref. 31242], Page et al. 2013:101 [ref. 32708], Stewart & Struthers 2015:957 [ref. 34274] as ? dorsomacula, Fourriére et al. 2016:455 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:607 [ref. 34923], Love et al. 2021:93 [ref. 39279], Grove et al. 2022:19 [ref. 41326], Page et al. 2023:150 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Cheilopogon dorsomacula (Fowler 1944). Exocoetidae. Distribution: Central and eastern Pacific: Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.); Colima (Mexico) south to Peru, including Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). IUCN (2010): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.
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