''Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus'', Bennett's flying fish, is a species of flying fish which has a circumglobal distribution in tropical and subtropical seas. It is an epiplegaic species which feeds on zooplankton and small fishes and is capable of leaping out of the water and gliding over the surface.

Subspecies

There are four subspecies of this widely distributed flying fish: * ''

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus pinnatibarbatus ''Cheilopogon'' is a genus of flyingfishes. Species Currently, 29 species in this genus are recognized: * ''Cheilopogon abei'' Parin, 1996 (Abe's flyingfish) * ''Cheilopogon agoo'' (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Japanese flyingfish) * ''Cheilopog ...

'' (Bennett, 1831) (Bennett's flyingfish) - Atlantic and western Indian Ocean * '' Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus californicus'' ( J. G. Cooper, 1863) (California flyingfish) - Eastern Pacific Ocean, from Oregon to Baja California * ''

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus japonicus ''Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus japonicus'' is a subspecies of flyingfish of the family Exocoetidae, found in the seas around Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated i ...

'' ( V. Franz, 1910) - north western Pacific Ocean, around Japan * '' Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus melanocercus'' ( J. D. Ogilby, 1885) (Australasian flying fish) - southwestern Pacific, eastern Australia and New Zealand

References

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