Cypselurus is a genus of flying fish in the family Exocoetidae. They are found across Indo-Pacific to western Atlantic Ocean ocean.
Species
Currently, there are twelve recognized species in this genus:
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Cypselurus angusticeps (Nichols & Breder, 1935) — narrowhead flying fish
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Cypselurus callopterus (Günther, 1866) — ornamented flying fish, beautyfin flying fish
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Cypselurus comatus (Mitchill, 1815) — clearwing flying fish
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Cypselurus hexazona (Pieter Bleeker, 1853) — darkbar flying fish
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Cypselurus hiraii (Tokiharu Abe, 1953)
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Cypselurus longibarbus (Parin, 1861)
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Cypselurus naresii (Günther, 1889) — Pharao flying fish
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Cypselurus oligolepis (Pieter Bleeker, 1865) — large-scale flying fish
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Cypselurus opisthopus (Pieter Bleeker, 1865) — black-finned flying fish
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Cypselurus poecilopterus (Valenciennes, 1847) - yellow-wing flying fish
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Cypselurus simus (Valenciennes, 1847) — short-nosed flying fish
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Cypselurus starksi (Tokiharu Abe, 1953)
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.
