WoRMS taxon details
Cheilopogon melanurus (Valenciennes, 1847)
272157 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272157)
accepted
Species
Cypselurus lutkeni (Jordan & Evermann, 1896) · unaccepted
Cypselurus melanurus (Valenciennes, 1847) · unaccepted
Exocoetus lutkeni Jordan & Evermann, 1896 · unaccepted
Exocoetus melanurus Valenciennes, 1847 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Exocoetus melanurus Valenciennes, 1847) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1847). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dix-neuvième. Suite du livre dix-neuvième. Brochets ou Lucioïdes. Livre vingtième. De quelques familles de Malacoptérygiens, intermédiaires entre les Brochets et les Clupes. 19: i-xix + 1-544 + 6 pp. Pls. 554-590. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Cheilopogon melanurus (Valenciennes, 1847). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=272157 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Exocoetus lutkeni Jordan & Evermann, 1896) Jordan, D. S. ; Evermann, B. W. (1896). The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part I. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> No. 47: i-lx + 1-1240., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.46755 [details]
original description (of Exocoetus melanurus Valenciennes, 1847) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1847). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dix-neuvième. Suite du livre dix-neuvième. Brochets ou Lucioïdes. Livre vingtième. De quelques familles de Malacoptérygiens, intermédiaires entre les Brochets et les Clupes. 19: i-xix + 1-544 + 6 pp. Pls. 554-590. [details]
original description (of Exocoetus melanurus Valenciennes, 1847) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1847). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dix-neuvième. Suite du livre dix-neuvième. Brochets ou Lucioïdes. Livre vingtième. De quelques familles de Malacoptérygiens, intermédiaires entre les Brochets et les Clupes. 19: i-xix + 1-544 + 6 pp. Pls. 554-590. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Exocoetus melanurus Valenciennes, 1847)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Cypselurus melanurus (Valenciennes, 1847))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Exocoetus lutkeni Jordan & Evermann, 1896)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cheilopogon melanurus)
To FishBase (from synonym Exocoetus melanurus Valenciennes, 1847)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Exocoetus lutkeni Jordan & Evermann, 1896)
To FishBase (from synonym Cypselurus melanurus (Valenciennes, 1847))
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 19 proteins) (from synonym Exocoetus melanurus Valenciennes, 1847)
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 19 proteins) (from synonym Cypselurus melanurus (Valenciennes, 1847))
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Exocoetus melanurus Valenciennes, 1847)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Cypselurus melanurus (Valenciennes, 1847))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Exocoetus lutkeni Jordan & Evermann, 1896)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cheilopogon melanurus)
To FishBase (from synonym Exocoetus melanurus Valenciennes, 1847)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Exocoetus lutkeni Jordan & Evermann, 1896)
To FishBase (from synonym Cypselurus melanurus (Valenciennes, 1847))
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 19 proteins) (from synonym Exocoetus melanurus Valenciennes, 1847)
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 19 proteins) (from synonym Cypselurus melanurus (Valenciennes, 1847))
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
