WoRMS taxon details
Cypselurus comatus (Mitchill, 1815)
278731 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:278731)
accepted
Species
Cheilopogon comatus (Mitchill, 1815) · unaccepted
Cypselurus alienus Herre, 1935 · unaccepted
Cypselurus antarei Beebe & Hollister, 1933 · unaccepted
Cypselurus vitropinna Breder, 1927 · unaccepted
Exocoetus comatus Mitchill, 1815 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Exocoetus comatus Mitchill, 1815) Mitchill, S. L. (1815). The fishes of New-York, described and arranged. <em>Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York.</em> v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814): 355-492, Pls. 1-6.
page(s): 448, Pl. 5 (fig. 1) [details]
page(s): 448, Pl. 5 (fig. 1) [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Cypselurus comatus (Mitchill, 1815). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=278731 on 2026-07-10
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
(of Exocoetus comatus Mitchill, 1815) Mitchill, S. L. (1815). The fishes of New-York, described and arranged. <em>Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York.</em> v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814): 355-492, Pls. 1-6.
page(s): 448, Pl. 5 (fig. 1) [details]
original description (of Cypselurus alienus Herre, 1935) Herre, A. W. C. T. (1935). New fishes obtained by the Crane Pacific expedition. <em>Field Museum of Natural History, Publications, Zoölogical Series.</em> v. 18 (no. 12): 383-438. [details]
original description (of Cypselurus antarei Beebe & Hollister, 1933) Beebe, W.; Hollister, G. (1933). New species of fish from the West Indies. <em>Zoologica, Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society.</em> 12(9): 83-88. [details]
page(s): 448, Pl. 5 (fig. 1) [details]
original description (of Cypselurus alienus Herre, 1935) Herre, A. W. C. T. (1935). New fishes obtained by the Crane Pacific expedition. <em>Field Museum of Natural History, Publications, Zoölogical Series.</em> v. 18 (no. 12): 383-438. [details]
original description (of Cypselurus antarei Beebe & Hollister, 1933) Beebe, W.; Hollister, G. (1933). New species of fish from the West Indies. <em>Zoologica, Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society.</em> 12(9): 83-88. [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
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]
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
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | clearwing flyingfish | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Cypselurus antarei Beebe & Hollister, 1933)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Cypselurus vitropinna Breder, 1927)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) (from synonym Exocoetus comatus Mitchill, 1815)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Cypselurus alienus Herre, 1935)
To FishBase (from synonym Cypselurus antarei Beebe & Hollister, 1933)
To FishBase (from synonym Cypselurus alienus Herre, 1935)
To FishBase (from synonym Cheilopogon comatus (Mitchill, 1815))
To FishBase (from synonym Exocoetus comatus Mitchill, 1815)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Cypselurus vitropinna Breder, 1927)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Cypselurus vitropinna Breder, 1927)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) (from synonym Exocoetus comatus Mitchill, 1815)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Cypselurus alienus Herre, 1935)
To FishBase (from synonym Cypselurus antarei Beebe & Hollister, 1933)
To FishBase (from synonym Cypselurus alienus Herre, 1935)
To FishBase (from synonym Cheilopogon comatus (Mitchill, 1815))
To FishBase (from synonym Exocoetus comatus Mitchill, 1815)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Cypselurus vitropinna Breder, 1927)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
