Cypselurus
Yellow-wing Flying Fish (C. poecilopterus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Beloniformes
Family:	Exocoetidae
Subfamily:	Cypsellurinae
Genus:	Cypselurus Swainson, 1838
Type species
Exocoetus appendiculatus, a synonym of Cypselurus comatus Wood, 1825[1]
Species
Twelve recognized - see text.

Cypselurus is a genus of flying fish in the family Exocoetidae. They are found across Indo-Pacific to western Atlantic ocean.

Currently, there are twelve recognized species in this genus:^[2]

• Cypselurus angusticeps (Nichols & Breder, 1935) — narrowhead flying fish
• Cypselurus callopterus (Günther, 1866) — ornamented flying fish, beautyfin flying fish
• Cypselurus comatus (Mitchill, 1815) — clearwing flying fish
• Cypselurus hexazona (Bleeker, 1853) — darkbar flying fish
• Cypselurus hiraii (T. Abe, 1953)
• Cypselurus longibarbus (Parin, 1861)
• Cypselurus naresii (Günther, 1889) — Pharao flying fish
• Cypselurus oligolepis (Bleeker, 1865) — large-scale flying fish
• Cypselurus opisthopus (Bleeker, 1865) — black-finned flying fish
• Cypselurus poecilopterus (Valenciennes, 1847) - yellow-wing flying fish
• Cypselurus simus (Valenciennes, 1847) — short-nosed flying fish
• Cypselurus starksi (T. Abe, 1953)

• Shakhovskoy, I.B., and N.V. Parin (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): 1–71. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4589.1.1