Parexocoetus brachypterus (Solander in Richardson 1846)

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, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 78

Parexocoetus brachypterus (Solander in Richardson 1846) —Sailfin flyingfish

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from of Cape St. George, New Ireland by Munro (1958: 138–139).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 3.—General distribution: East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian and Marquesas islands, south to northern Australia, New Caledonia and Tonga, Panama (eastern Pacific). Epipelagic in oceanic waters, 0–10 m depth. Marine.