Species that contain: Fodiator and acutus and acutus [ 3 ] records

acutus, Exocoetus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:125 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 19; ref. 4883] Suriname. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-3202. Type catalog: Bruun 1937:185-186 [ref. 12982], Collette et al. 1997:10 [ref. 22813]. •Valid as Fodiator acutus (Valenciennes 1847), valid subspecies acutus -- (Reiner 2019:137 [ref. 38139]). •Valid as Fodiator acutus (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:114 [ref. 9277], Parin & Gibbs 1990:588 [ref. 16545], Allen & Robertson 1994:89 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:78 [ref. 23101], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:139 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:254 [ref. 24023], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:950 [ref. 23897], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:175 [ref. 24555], Afonso et al. 1999:83 [ref. 25466] as species and subspecies, Parin & Belyanina 2002:294 [ref. 26169], Nelson et al. 2004:100 [ref. 27807], Nelson et al. 2004:100 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:65 [ref. 37547], Wirtz et al. 2007:27 [ref. 30263], Page et al. 2013:101 [ref. 32708], Parin & Shakhovskoy 2016:2148 [ref. 34602], Kells et al. 2016:118 [ref. 35888], Lewallen et al. 2017:1753 [ref. 35395], Fermon et al. 2022:270 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Fodiator acutus (Valenciennes 1847). Exocoetidae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Mauritania south to Walvis Bay (Namibia), including São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: marine.

pacificus, Fodiator acutus Bruun [A. F.] 1933:378 [Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, Kjøbenhavn v. 94; ref. 16474] Panama Bay, eastern Pacific, 8°24'N, 79°23'W. Holotype (unique): ZMUC P342294. Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:54 [ref. 9588]. Exocoetidae. Habitat: marine.

rostratus, Exocoetus Günther [A.] 1866:280 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 6; ref. 1983] Hawaiian Islands [in error, eastern Pacific]. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1855.9.19.1060. The original locality of Sandwich Islands is in error. •Synonym of Fodiator acutus (Valenciennes 1847), but a valid subspecies -- (Pequeño 1989:50 [ref. 14125], Parin in Fischer et al. 1995: [ref. 22829], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:139 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:254 [ref. 24023], Mundy 2005:288 [ref. 28379], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:190 [ref. 30957]). •Valid as Fodiator rostratus (Günther 1866) -- (Parin & Belyanina 2002:296 [ref. 26169], Palacios-Salgado et al. 2014:236 [ref. 36362], Lewallen et al. 2017:1753 [ref. 35395], Love et al. 2021:94 [ref. 39279], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Fodiator rostratus (Günther 1866). Exocoetidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to Chile, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.