Cypselurus is a genus of flying fish in the family Exocoetidae. They are found across Indo-Pacific to western Atlantic ocean.

Cypselurus
Yellow-wing Flying Fish
(C. poecilopterus)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beloniformes
Family: Exocoetidae
Subfamily: Cypsellurinae
Genus: Cypselurus
Swainson, 1838
Type species
Exocoetus appendiculatus, a synonym of Cypselurus comatus
Wood, 1825[1]
Species

Twelve recognized - see text.

Species

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Currently, there are twelve recognized species in this genus:[2]

See also

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  • Shakhovskoy, I.B., and N.V. Parin (2019). A review of the flying fish genus Cypselurus (Beloniformes: Exocoetidae). Part 1. Revision of the subgenus Zonocypselurus Parin and Bogorodsky, 2011 with descriptions of one new subgenus, four new species and two new subspecies and reinstatement of one species as valid. Zootaxa 4589(1): 1–71. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4589.1.1

References

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  1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Cypselurus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Cypselurus". FishBase. April 2014 version.