volitans, Exocoetus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:316 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Open ocean off Europe and America. Syntypes: ZMUU Linn. Coll. 59 (1). Type catalog: Lönnberg 1896:25 [ref. 23530], Wheeler 1991:167, Fig. 9 [ref. 20102]. •Valid as Exocoetus volitans Linnaeus 1758 -- (Parin 1973:263 [ref. 7191], Sheiko 1983:18 [ref. 37041], Dor 1984:60 [ref. 29757], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:80 [ref. 6441], Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986:616 [ref. 13676], Heemstra & Parin 1986:394 [ref. 6293], Robins & Ray 1986:103 [ref. 23100], Paxton et al. 1989:333 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:50 [ref. 14125], Winterbottom et al. 1989:15 [ref. 13251], Parin & Gibbs 1990:587 [ref. 16545], Cervigón 1992:319 [ref. 23827], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:146 [ref. 25472], Goren & Dor 1994:15 [ref. 25356], Gomon et al. 1994:387 [ref. 22532], Allen & Robertson 1994:89 [ref. 22193], Parin in Fischer et al. 1995:1101 [ref. 22829], Parin 1996:301 [ref. 23179], Santos et al. 1997:68 [ref. 23531], Chen et al. 1997:26 [ref. 26476], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:247 [ref. 24023], Arruda 1997:63 [ref. 24952], Monteiro et al. 1998:400 [ref. 23732], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:949 [ref. 23897], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:176 [ref. 24555], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:8 [ref. 24670], Sarkar et al. 1998:131 [ref. 24988], Fricke 1999:122 [ref. 24106], Parin 1999:2176 [ref. 24786], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:172 [ref. 25013], Mishra et al. 1999:84 [ref. 25315], Afonso et al. 1999:83 [ref. 25466], Nakabo 2000:553 [ref. 25086], Parin in Randall & Lim 2000:600 [ref. 25122], Parin & Shakhovskoy 2000:S33 [ref. 25770], Hutchins 2001:24 [ref. 25847], Kim et al. 2001:107 [ref. 25722], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:175 [ref. 26753], Nakabo 2002:553 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:221, 547 [ref. 26218], Parin 2003:1128 [ref. 27018], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:68 [ref. 27192], Myers & Donaldson 2003:615 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:68 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:9 [ref. 27624], 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], Barman & Mishra 2006:17 [ref. 41388], Paxton et al. 2006:729 [ref. 29073], Vaske et al. 2005:77 [ref. 36155], Wirtz et al. 2007:27 [ref. 30263], Gomon 2008:404 [ref. 30616], Fricke et al. 2009:31 [ref. 30213], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:35 [ref. 36649], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:190 [ref. 30957], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:62 [ref. 35264], Fricke et al. 2011:370 [ref. 31242], Page et al. 2013:101 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:120 [ref. 32972], Wirtz et al. 2013:121 [ref. 32972], Larson et al. 2013:67 [ref. 32988], Wirtz et al. 2014:4 [ref. 33516], Parin et al. 2014:194 [ref. 33547], Psomadakis et al. 2015:180 [ref. 34104], Stewart & Struthers 2015:961 [ref. 34274], Pinheiro et al. 2015:9 [ref. 34324], Parin & Shakhovskoy 2016:2147 [ref. 34602], Fourriére et al. 2016:456 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:607 [ref. 34923], Nión et al. 2016:42 [ref. 35565], Lewallen et al. 2017:1753 [ref. 35395], Fricke et al. 2018:103 [ref. 35805], Shakhovskoy 2018:43 [ref. 36429], Brown et al. 2019:165 [ref. 36444], Carneiro et al. 2019:201 [ref. 37250], Fricke et al. 2019:77 [ref. 36673], Jayakumar et al. 2019:703 [ref. 37111], Parin et al. 2019:196 [ref. 37342], Reiner 2019:136 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:42 [ref. 37515], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 10 [ref. 38321], Kovačić et al. 2020:30 [ref. 37519], Psomadakis et al. 2020:345 [ref. 37272], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:302 [ref. 38945], Kovačić et al. 2021:53 [ref. 39014], Love et al. 2021:94 [ref. 39279], Shakhovskoy & Bogorodsky 2021:383 [ref. 38589], Fermon et al. 2022:270 [ref. 39448], Grove et al. 2022:20 [ref. 41326], Shakhovskoy & Collette 2022:351 [ref. 39717], Carvalho-Filho 2023:87 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:150 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Exocoetus volitans Linnaeus 1758. Exocoetidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, South China Sea). IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.