Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Exocaetus brachypterus Richardson, 1846, Exocoetus atrodorsalis Günther, 1867, Exocoetus brachypterus Richardson, 1846, Paraexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson, 1846), Paraxocoetus brachypterus (Richardson, 1846), Parexocoetus brachypterus brachypterus (Richardson, 1846), Parexocoetus brachypterus hillianus (Gosse, 1851), Ptenonotus melanogeneion Pietschmann, 1928 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Vagrant

Distribution: Indo-Pacific: widespread from East Africa, including the Red Sea to southern Japan, Hawaii, the Marquesas, and Queensland (Australia); separate population in the eastern tropical Pacific (Bay of Panama). Western Atlantic: northeastern Florida, USA and the Bahamas to Brazil; common in Caribbean Sea and Lesser Antilles area; less common in the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf Stream and the western Sargasso Sea. Eastern Atlantic: Guinea to Angola (Froese and Pauly, 2021).

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• Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.