Cheilopogon fisunovi Parin & Belyanina 1998

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 : 77

Cheilopogon fisunovi Parin & Belyanina 1998 —Pacific spotfin flyingfish

Status at New Ireland. Reported from Bismarck Sea off Kavieng, New Ireland in original description as Cheilopogon furcatus fisunovi by Parin & Belyanina (1998: 595, 596).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: in tropical and warm temperate parts of the Pacific Ocean. Epipelagic in oceanic waters, 0–20 m depth. Marine.

Remarks. Cheilopogon fisunovi is considered as valid, and raised to the species level here, in accordance with the principles stated in the Methods section.