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Genus 507. PAREXOCCETUS Bleeker. 



Parcxocoelus Bleoker, Xederl. Tijdschr. Dierk., Ill, 1866, 126 (Exocoetus 

 mento Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



1556. ParexoccBtus raesogaster (Bloch). 



Tropical seas; East Indies and West Indies; Hawaiian Islands; 



Newport, Rhode Island; Carolina coast. 

 Exocoetus mesogaster Bloch. Natnrgesch. Ausl. Fisch., IX, 1795, 17, 



Martinique; on a drawing by Plumier, in which the pectorals and 



ventrals are much too long. 

 Exocoetus orbigitianiis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIX, 



1846,95 (131), Montevideo. 

 Exocoetus hillianus Gosse, Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica, II, 1851, 



PI. I, fig. 1, Jamaica. 

 Exocoetus gryllus Klunzinger, Verhandl. Zool. Botan. Gesell. Wien, 1871, 



586, Red Sea. 



Genus 508. EXOCCETUS Linnseus. Flyingfishes. 



Exocoetus Linna3us, Syst. Nat., ed'. X, 1758, 316 {E. volitans). 



X557. Exocoetus volitans Linnajus. Sharp-finncd flying fish. 



Warm seas; Atlantic coast north to Newfoundland; England; Ha- 

 waiian Islands and Japan, largely pelagic. 



Exocoetus volitmis Linnajus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 316, Atlantic Ocean; 

 not of Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Exocoetus evolans Linna-us, loc. cit., ed. XII, 1766, 521; after Gronow. 



Exocoetus splendens Abel, Narr. Voy. China, 1818, 4, China. 



Exocoetus georgianus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 XIX, 1846, 139, equatorial America. 



Exocoetus chiUensis Abbott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XII, 1860, 

 472, Chile. 



1558. Exocoetus obtusirostris Giinther. 



Tropical Atlantic; recorded from Cape Verde Islands, New Orleans, 



and Miami, Fla. 

 Exocoetus obtusirostris Giinther, Cat., VI, 1866, 283, Cape Verde Islands, 



etc.; according to Nichols (Copeia, No. 108, 1922, 49), this is different 



from E. volitens. 



Genus 509. EXONAUTES Jordan and Evermann. 



Exonautes Jordan and Evermann, Rept. U. S. Fish Com., 1895, 322 

 {Exocoetus exsiliens P. L. S. Miiller). 



1559. Exonautes exsiliens (P. L. S. Midler). 



Open seas; rare on our Atlantic coast. 



Exocaius exsiliens Philip Ludwig Statins Miiller, Niirnberg, ed. Linnajus, 



Syst. Nat., 1776, 209, Carolinas. 

 Exocoetus fasciatus LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., II, 1821, 8, 



pi. 4, fig. 2, Atlantic. 

 Exocoetus lamellifer Kner and Steindachner, Neue Fische Godeffroy 



-Mus., 1866, 29, Atlantic 12° S., 39° W. 



1560. Exonautes rondeletii (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Tropical seas; Florida; France; Acapulco; West Indies; southern 



Europe; perhaps the adult of E. exsiliens. 

 Exocoetus rondeletii Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIX, 



1846, 84 (115), pi. 562, Naples; Sicily; Canaries. 

 Exocoetus brachycephalus Giinther, Cat., VI, 1866, 297, China. 

 Exocoetus volador Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 1884, 34 Pcnsx- 



cola, Fla. 



1561. Exonautes vinciguerrae (Jordan and Meek). 



Open Atlantic; southern Europe; Newfoundland; St. Martins; Gulf of 



Mexico. 

 Exocoetus vinciguerrse Jordan and Meek, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 



1885. 56, open sea off Newfoundland, 46° N., 61° W. 



