Species that contain: Parexocoetus and brachypterus [ 5 ] records

atrodorsalis, Exocoetus Günther [A.] 1867:67 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 3) v. 20 (no. 115); ref. 1988] Cape York, Queensland, Australia. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1866.12.28.32. •Synonym of Parexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson 1846) -- (Paxton et al. 1989:334 [ref. 12442], Paxton et al. 2006:731 [ref. 29073]). Current status: Synonym of Parexocoetus brachypterus (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], Hata in Koeda & Ho 2019:434 [ref. 42208], 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], Grove et al. 2022:20 [ref. 41326], Shakhovskoy & Collette 2022:354 [ref. 39717], Page et al. 2023:150 [ref. 40505], Fricke et al. 2024:482 [ref. 41622], Kai & Gosho 2025:35 [ref. 42505]). 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 Réunion, 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, including Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). IUCN (2025): Not Assessed. Habitat: marine.

hillianus, Exocoetus Gosse [P. H.] 1851:11, Pl. 1 (fig. 1) [A naturalist's sojourn in Jamaica; ref. 18149] Jamaica. No types known. •Valid as Parexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson 1846), subspecies hillianus (Gosse 1851) -- (Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:174 [ref. 25013]). •Valid as Parexocoetus hillianus (Gosse 1851) -- (Parin 2003:1132 [ref. 27018], Pinheiro et al. 2015:10 [ref. 34324], Parin & Shakhovskoy 2016:2154 [ref. 34602], Parin et al. 2019:219 [ref. 37342], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:306 [ref. 38945], Fermon et al. 2022:271 [ref. 39448], Carvalho-Filho 2023:88 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:151 [ref. 40505], Fricke et al. 2024:483 [ref. 41622], Marceniuk et al. 2025:14 [ref. 42083]). Current status: Valid as Parexocoetus hillianus (Gosse 1851). Exocoetidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: northeastern Florida (U.S.A.) and Bahamas south to São Paulo (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Guinea south to Angola. IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.

littoralis, Parexocoetus brachypterus Breder [C. M., Jr.] 1938:22, Figs. 10-12 [Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection Yale University v. 6 (art. 5); ref. 17133] Diamond Shoal Lightship, western Atlantic. Holotype: YPM 1567 (126 mm SL). Paratypes: YPM 116 (1), 118 (1), 158 (2), 1567 (1, with holotype); USBF (12). Additional material: AMNH, NYZS, USBF, USNM •Synonym of Parexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson 1846), subspecies hillianus (Gosse 1851) -- (Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:174 [ref. 25013]). •Synonym of Parexocoetus hillianus (Gosse 1851) -- (Parin 2003:1132 [ref. 27018]). Current status: Synonym of Parexocoetus hillianus (Gosse 1851). Exocoetidae. Habitat: marine.

melanogeneion, Ptenonotus Pietschmann [V.] 1928:298 [Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 65 (no. 27); ref. 15874] Kona, Hawaii Island, Hawaiian Islands. Holotype (unique): BPBM 3481. Also appeared as new in Pietschmann 1930:8, Pl. 2B [ref. 16121]. •Synonym of Parexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson 1846) -- (Mundy 2005:290 [ref. 28379]). Current status: Synonym of Parexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson 1846). Exocoetidae. Habitat: marine.