''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

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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

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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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