Darkbar Flyingfish, Cypselurus olpar Shakhovskoy & Parin 2019

Other Names: Olga’s Snakehead Flying Fish

Summary:

A dark flying becoming pale below, body without bands, with dark pectoral fins having a pale rear margin, a grey dorsal fin and transparent pelvic and anal fins.
In Australia, this species was previously referred to as Cypselurus hexazona.

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Bray, D.J. 2019, Cypselurus olpar in Fishes of Australia, accessed 19 Jan 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/4481

Darkbar Flyingfish, Cypselurus olpar Shakhovskoy & Parin 2019

More Info

Distribution	Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia, around the tropical north to the Coral Sea, east of Emu Park, Queensland, with juveniles south the off Fremantle on the west coast, and to Nelson Bay, New South Wales, on the east coast. Elsewhere the species occurs in Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia.
Remarks	Specimens from eastern and northwestern Australia differ slightly in number of pectoral-fin rays (fish from the eastern Australia more often with 15 rays, while fish from western Australia usually with 14 rays), predorsal scales (usually 24–26 in eastern fish vs. usually 26–28 in western fish) and transverse scales (usually 7½ in eastern fish vs. usually 8 in western fish).
Etymology	The species is named in honor of Olga Vladimirovna Parina, who provided both authors with great help and moral support during the work on this review. The name "olpar" is formed by a combination of the first 2 letters of her name and the first 3 letters of the surname.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2019
Resources	Australian Faunal Directory

Darkbar Flyingfish, Cypselurus olpar Shakhovskoy & Parin 2019

References

Belyanina, T.N. 1993. Early stages of development of the East Australian flying fishes (family Exocoetidae). Trudy Instituta Okeanologii 128: 108–146. [in Russian with English abstract] (in part as Cypselurus hexazona)

Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. 2013. An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa 3696(1): 1–293. (as Cypselurus hexazona)

Munro, I.S.R. 1967. The fishes of New Guinea. Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries, Port Moresby, 650 pp. (as Cypselurus hexazona)

Shakhovskoy, I.B. & Parin, N.V. 2019. A review of the flying fish genus Cypselurus (Beloniformes: Exocoetidae). Part 1. Revision of the subgenus Zonocypselurus Parin and Bogorodsky, 2011 with descriptions of one new subgenus, four new species and two new subspecies and reinstatement of one species as valid. Zootaxa 4589(1): 72 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4589.1.1