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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C7390B16-569F-46A2-A823-0018E1934873
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5580115
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-8049-FFEA-EDFC-CC451A110D69
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Parexocoetus brachypterus (Solander in Richardson 1846)
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Parexocoetus brachypterus (Solander in Richardson 1846) View in CoL —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.