Kyphosus ocyurus

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Perciformes; Kyphosidae; Kyphosus; Kyphosus ocyurus; Yukon; Galapagos; Pacific; Milton; Scripps; Diablo; Archipelago; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5607851; https://zenodo.org/record/5607851

Kyphosus ocyurus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882). Bluestriped Chub or Rainbow Sea Chub. To 70 cm (27.6 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Mostly eastern Pacific Ocean; one record from Japan (Araga in Masuda et al. 1984); off Diablo Canyon, central California (Andrew Harmer, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), apparently just into Gulf of California (23°06’N, 109°12’W) (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.), but including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Inshore and pelagic around floating material (Allen and Robertson 1994); depth: 0–30 m (98 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2008). Smaller individuals associate with drifting material (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Recently as Sectator ocyurus (Jordan and Gilbert, 1882). : Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.", "Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.", "Bearez, P. (1996) Lista de los peces marinos del Ecuador continental. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44, 731 - 741.", "Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.", "Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.", "Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa."]}