Exocoetus monocirrhus Richardson, 1846 .

Barbel Flyingfish. To 23 cm (9.1 in) TL (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002). Circumglobal (Shakhovskoy 2018); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); southern Baja California (25°22’N, 113°08’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Surface to 20 m (66 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). Characterized as Indo-Pacific in Fricke et al. (2020).