Published April 23, 2019
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Cypselurus opisthopus
Description
Cypselurus opisthopus (Bleeker 1865) —Black-finned flyingfish
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Ningin Island, New Ireland by Munro (1958: 137).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 3.—General distribution: Andaman Sea east to Philippines and Solomon Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands. Epipelagic in oceanic waters, 0–20 m depth. Marine.
Notes
Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 77, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Exocoetidae
- Genus
- Cypselurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Beloniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bleeker
- Species
- opisthopus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cypselurus opisthopus (Bleeker, 1865) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Munro, I. S. R. (1958) The fishes of the New Guinea region. Fishery Bulletin, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Port Moresby, 1, 97 - 369.