brevipinnis, Exocoetus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:123 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 19; ref. 4883] Carteret Harbour, Lambom Island, near Cape Saint-George, southern New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific, ca. 4°48'S, 152°51'E. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-0602. Type catalog: Bruun 1937:185 [ref. 12982], Collette et al. 1997:10 [ref. 22813]. •Valid as Prognichthys brevipinnis (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:82 [ref. 6441], Heemstra & Parin 1986:396 [ref. 6293], Randall 1995:91 [ref. 22896], Parin 1996:301 [ref. 23179], Anderson et al. 1998:22 [ref. 23611], Parin 1999:2178 [ref. 24786], Nakabo 2000:554 [ref. 25086], Parin in Randall & Lim 2000:600 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2002:554 [ref. 26001], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S100 [ref. 27377], Barman & Mishra 2006:25 [ref. 41388], Fricke et al. 2014:38 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2019:78 [ref. 36673], Jayakumar et al. 2019:703 [ref. 37111], Psomadakis et al. 2020:346 [ref. 37272], Shakhovskoy & Bogorodsky 2021:383 [ref. 38589], Shakhovskoy & Collette 2022:355 [ref. 39717]). Current status: Valid as Prognichthys brevipinnis (Valenciennes 1847). Exocoetidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa and Socotra (Yemen) east to Palau and Fiji, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to New Ireland (Papua New Guinea). IUCN (2024): Not Assessed. Habitat: marine.