Species that contain: Oxyporhamphus and micropterus and micropterus [ 4 ] records

argenteus, Hemiramphus Bennett [F. D.] 1840:269, Fig. [Narrative of a whaling voyage round the globe v. 2; ref. 260] Pacific ("in lats. 3°S and 5°N"). No types known. •Status uncertain, questionably the same as Oxyporhamphus micropterus (Valenciennes 1847), subspecies micropterus -- (Parin et al. 1980:149 [ref. 6895], Collette & Su 1986:286 [ref. 5998], Collette 1986:391 [ref. 5647]). •Synonym of Oxyporhamphus micropterus subspecies micropterus (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Mundy 2005:290 [ref. 28379]). •Incertae sedis -- (Collette 2004:28 [ref. 27583]). Current status: Synonym of Oxyporhamphus micropterus (Valenciennes 1847). Hemiramphidae. Habitat: marine.

cuspidatus, Hemiramphus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:56, Pl. 557 [not 523] [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 19; ref. 4883] Indian Ocean (stomach content). Lectotype: MNHN 0000-4593. Paralectotypes: MNHN B-2969 [ex MNHN 0000-4593] (1, poor condition). Type catalog: Bruun 1937:187 [ref. 12982], Collette et al. 1997:15 [ref. 22813]. Lectotype selected by Bruun 1937:187 [ref. 12982]. •Synonym of Oxyporhamphus micropterus (Valenciennes 1847), subspecies micropterus -- (Parin et al. 1980:149 [ref. 6895], Collette & Su 1986:286 [ref. 5998], Collette 1986:391 [ref. 5647], Collette 2004:13, 25 [ref. 27583], Paxton et al. 2006:737 [ref. 28994]). •Synonym of Oxyporhamphus micropterus (Valenciennes 1847). Current status: Synonym of Oxyporhamphus micropterus (Valenciennes 1847). Hemiramphidae. Habitat: marine.

micropterus, Exocoetus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:127, Pl. 563 [not 529] [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 19; ref. 4883] King George Sound, Western Australia. Lectotype: MNHN A-9925. Paralectotypes: MNHN 0000-3408 to 3409 (1, 1), B-0840 (1). Type catalog: Bruun 1937:186 [ref. 12982], Collette et al. 1997:20 [ref. 22813]. Lectotype established by Bruun 1937:186 [ref. 12982]. •Valid as Oxyporhamphus micropterus (Valenciennes 1847), subspecies micropterus (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Parin et al. 1980:149 [ref. 6895], Collette & Su 1986:286 [ref. 5998], Collette 1999:2196 [ref. 24785], Nakabo 2000:552 [ref. 25086], Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:599 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2002:552 [ref. 26001], Myers & Donaldson 2003:615 [ref. 27495], Collette 2004:13, 26 [ref. 27583], Mundy 2005:290 [ref. 28379], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:190 [ref. 30957], Motomura et al. 2010:82 [ref. 31256], Yoshida et al. 2013:61 [ref. 34464], Fourriére et al. 2016:456 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:607 [ref. 34923], Collette 2022:370 [ref. 39718]). •Valid as Oxyporhamphus micropterus (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:80 [ref. 6441], Collette 1986:391 [ref. 5647], Robins & Ray 1986:103 [ref. 23100], Paxton et al. 1989:339 [ref. 12442], Boschung 1992:83 [ref. 23239], Allen & Robertson 1994:89 [ref. 22193], Collette in Fischer et al. 1995:1181 [ref. 22829], Randall 1995:88 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:178 [ref. 27969], Allen & Robertson 1997:821 [ref. 41086], De, La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:190 [ref. 24545] as micorpterus, Grove & Lavenberg 1997:264 [ref. 24023], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:963 [ref. 23897], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:113 [ref. 24555], Fricke 1999:120 [ref. 24106], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:154 [ref. 27754], Hutchins 2001:24 [ref. 25847], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:69 [ref. 27192], Lobel & Lobel 2004:69 [ref. 27576] as Oxyporhampus, Nelson et al. 2004:100 [ref. 27807], Vaske et al. 2005:77 [ref. 36155], Paxton et al. 2006:737 [ref. 28994], Page et al. 2013:102 [ref. 32708], Fricke et al. 2014:39 [ref. 33932], Struthers 2015:968 [ref. 34261], Fricke et al. 2018:105 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:79 [ref. 36673], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:313 [ref. 38945], Love et al. 2021:95 [ref. 39279], Collette 2022:370 [ref. 39718], Carvalho-Filho 2023:90 [ref. 40480], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Oxyporhamphus micropterus (Valenciennes 1847). Hemiramphidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Florida (U.S.A.) south to northeastern Brazil; Indo-Pacific: East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mauritius (Mascarenes) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia, New Zealand region and Tonga; eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.

similis, Oxyporhamphus micropterus Bruun [A. F.] 1935:17, Pl. 1 (fig. 1) [Dana Report No. 6; ref. 5130] Atlantic. Holotype: ZMUC 345 (apparently lost). Paratypes: ZMUC 3 (1), 13 (1), 229-233 (5), 529-531 (3), 959-963 (5), 1134 (1), P34223-27 (5). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:54 [ref. 9588]. Holotype established in caption to Pl. 1. •Synonym of Oxyporhamphus micropterus (Valenciennes 1847), but a valid subspecies similis Bruun 1935 as described -- (Collette & Parin 1990:581 [ref. 16473], Monteiro et al. 1998:400 [ref. 23732], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:174 [ref. 25013], Collette et al. 2003:102 [ref. 26784], Collette 2003:1144 [ref. 26981], Collette 2004:13, 27 [ref. 27583], Collette 2016:2163 [ref. 34601], Collette & Bemis 2019:127 [ref. 37342]). •Valid as Oxyporhamphus similis Bruun 1935 -- (Wirtz et al. 2013:121 [ref. 32972], Fermon et al. 2022:269 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Oxyporhamphus similis Bruun 1935. Hemiramphidae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Senegal south to Angola, including Cape Verde Islands. Habitat: marine.