abei, Cheilopogon Parin [N. V.] 1996:303, Fig. 1 [Voprosy Ikhtiologii v. 36 (no. 3); ref. 23179] Western Pacific, near Admiralty Islands, 1°00'S, 148°00'E [not 48°00'E]. Holotype: ZIN 51011. Paratypes: ZIN 51012-15 (1, 1, 1, 1); ZMMU P-9940 (10, not received). Based on literature and specimens. •Valid as Cypselurus abei (Parin 1996) -- (Nakabo 2000:557 [ref. 25086], Nakabo 2002:557 [ref. 26001]). •Valid as Cheilopogon abei Parin 1996 -- (Parin 1999:2169 [ref. 24786], Parin in Randall & Lim 2000:600 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:24 [ref. 25847], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S100 [ref. 27377], Paxton et al. 2006:724 [ref. 29073], Larson et al. 2013:66 [ref. 32988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:178 [ref. 34104], Stewart & Struthers 2015:956 [ref. 34274] as ? abei, Fricke et al. 2018:102 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:77 [ref. 36673], Jayakumar et al. 2019:701 [ref. 37111], Psomadakis et al. 2020:341 [ref. 37272], Shakhovskoy & Bogorodsky 2021:382 [ref. 38589], Shakhovskoy & Collette 2022:342 [ref. 39717]). Current status: Valid as Cheilopogon abei Parin 1996. Exocoetidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (SouthAfrica), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles and Madagascar east to Mariana Islands and Solomon Islands, north to Taiwan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.