Species that contain: Exocoetus and monocirrhus [ 5 ] records

borodini, Halocypselus Nichols [J. T.] & Breder [C. M., Jr.] 1932:1, Fig. 1 [American Museum Novitates No. 561; ref. 13300] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype: MCZ 6216. Paratypes: AMNH 9698 [ex MCZ] (1). •Synonym of Exocoetus monocirrhus Richardson 1846 -- (Fricke 1999:122 [ref. 24106], Parin & Shakhovskoy 2000:S44 [ref. 25770]). Current status: Synonym of Exocoetus monocirrhus Richardson 1846. Exocoetidae. Habitat: marine.

brachypterus, Exocaetus Richardson [J.] (ex Solander) 1846:265 [Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 15th meeting [1845]; ref. 3742] Tahiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia, South Pacific; China sea, western Pacific. Syntypes: whereabouts unknown. Genus in original should have been spelled Exocoetus. Not available from above, manuscript name for specimen from Tahiti mentioned in the synonymy of Exocoetus monocirrhus; subsequently validated back to Richardson 1846 by use as a valid name by Günther 1866:280 [ref. 1983]. •Synonym of Parexocoetus mento (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Dor 1984:61 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Parexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson 1846), subspecies brachypterus (Richardson 1846) -- (Nakabo 2000:554 [ref. 25086], Nakabo 2002:554 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:221, 548 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S100 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:615 [ref. 27495], Motomura et al. 2010:82 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:370 [ref. 31242], Larson et al. 2013:68 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:38 [ref. 33932]). •Valid as Parexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson 1846) -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:80 [ref. 6441], Heemstra & Parin 1986:395 [ref. 6293], Robins & Ray 1986:103 [ref. 23100], Paxton et al. 1989:334 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:15 [ref. 13251], Parin & Gibbs 1990:590 [ref. 16545], Cervigón 1991:213 [ref. 24472], Boschung 1992:82 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:320 [ref. 23827], Goren & Dor 1994:15 [ref. 25356], Parin in Fischer et al. 1995:1103 [ref. 22829], Randall 1995:90 [ref. 22896], Parin 1996:301 [ref. 23179], Anderson et al. 1998:22 [ref. 23611], Monteiro et al. 1998:400 [ref. 23732], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:953 [ref. 23897], Fricke 1999:123 [ref. 24106], Parin 1999:2178 [ref. 24786], Johnson 1999:724 [ref. 25471], Parin in Randall & Lim 2000:600 [ref. 25122], Avsar & Cicek 2000:91 [ref. 25539], Hutchins 2001:24 [ref. 25847], Rocha & Rosa 2001:989 [ref. 25909], Kim et al. 2001:107 [ref. 25722], Collette et al. 2003:102 [ref. 26784], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:68 [ref. 27192], Randall et al. 2004:9 [ref. 27624], Nelson et al. 2004:100 [ref. 27807], Mundy 2005:290 [ref. 28379], Vaske et al. 2005:77 [ref. 36155], Paxton et al. 2006:731 [ref. 29073] with subspecies mentioned, Fricke et al. 2009:31 [ref. 30213], Page et al. 2013:102 [ref. 32708], Fricke et al. 2018:103 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:41 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:78 [ref. 36673], Jayakumar et al. 2019:703 [ref. 37111], Psomadakis et al. 2020:346 [ref. 37272], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:305 [ref. 38945], Love et al. 2021:94 [ref. 39279], Fermon et al. 2022:271 [ref. 39448], Shakhovskoy & Collette 2022:354 [ref. 39717], Page et al. 2023:150 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Parexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson 1846). Exocoetidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunin, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U. S. A.) and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga; eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Ecuador. Habitat: marine.

georgianus, Exocoetus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:136 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 19; ref. 4883] Indian Ocean, 5°S, 90°E. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-0601. Paralectotypes: MNHN 1996-0141 [ex MNHN 0000-0601], B-0841 (1). Type catalog: Bruun 1937:187 [ref. 12982], Collette et al. 1997:11 [ref. 22813]. Lectotype established by Bruun 1937:187 [ref. 12982]. •Synonym of Exocoetus monocirrhus Richardson 1846 -- (Parin & Shakhovskoy 2000:S44 [ref. 25770]). Current status: Synonym of Exocoetus monocirrhus Richardson 1846. Exocoetidae. Habitat: marine.

melanopus, Exocoetus Günther [A.] 1868:459 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 4) v. 1 (no. 6); ref. 1993] Zanzibar, Tanzania, western Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1868.2.29.54. •Synonym of Exocoetus monocirrhus Richardson 1846 -- (Parin & Shakhovskoy 2000:S44 [ref. 25770]). Current status: Synonym of Exocoetus monocirrhus Richardson 1846. Exocoetidae. Habitat: marine.

monocirrhus, Exocaetus Richardson [J.] 1846:265 [Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 15th meeting [1845]; ref. 3742] Sea of China, western North Pacific. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Original genus should have been Exocoetus. •Valid as Exocoetus monocirrhus Richardson 1846 -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:80 [ref. 6441], Heemstra & Parin 1986:394 [ref. 6293], Paxton et al. 1989:333 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:15 [ref. 13251], Parin in Fischer et al. 1995:1100 [ref. 22829], Parin 1996:301 [ref. 23179], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:137 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:249 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:176 [ref. 24555], Fricke 1999:122 [ref. 24106], Parin 1999:2176 [ref. 24786], Nakabo 2000:553 [ref. 25086], Parin in Randall & Lim 2000:600 [ref. 25122], Parin & Shakhovskoy 2000:S44 [ref. 25770], Hutchins 2001:24 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:553 [ref. 26001], Myers & Donaldson 2003:615 [ref. 27495], Nelson et al. 2004:100 [ref. 27807], Heemstra et al. 2004:3317 [ref. 27945], Love et al. 2005:65 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:288 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:729 [ref. 29073], Fricke et al. 2009:31 [ref. 30213], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:190 [ref. 30957], Motomura et al. 2010:82 [ref. 31256], Kharin & Saveliev 2011:554 [ref. 32456] as monochirus in key, Page et al. 2013:101 [ref. 32708], Larson et al. 2013:67 [ref. 32988], Parin et al. 2014:194 [ref. 33547], Psomadakis et al. 2015:179 [ref. 34104], Fourriére et al. 2016:456 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:607 [ref. 34923], Lewallen et al. 2017:1753 [ref. 35395], Fricke et al. 2018:103 [ref. 35805], Shakhovskoy 2018:43 [ref. 36429], Fricke et al. 2019:77 [ref. 36673], Jayakumar et al. 2019:703 [ref. 37111], Psomadakis et al. 2020:344 [ref. 37272], Love et al. 2021:94 [ref. 39279], Shakhovskoy & Bogorodsky 2021:383 [ref. 38589], Shakhovskoy & Collette 2022:350 [ref. 39717], Page et al. 2023:150 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Exocoetus monocirrhus Richardson 1846. Exocoetidae. Distribution: Southern-central Atlantic: Saint Helena; Indo-Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia; eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Peru, including Revillagigedo Islands (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.