Platybelone argalus

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Beloniformes; Belonidae; Platybelone; Platybelone argalus; Yukon; Baja; Pacific; Milton; Scripps; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5603730; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603730

Platybelone argalus (Lesueur, 1821). Keeltail Needlefish. To 50 cm (19.7 in) SL (Collette and Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); Islas San Benito (28°28’N, 115°35’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Bahía de Sebastian Vizcaino (28°15’N, 114°10’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), central Baja California to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including lower Gulf of California (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface to 5 m (17 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). 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 96, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008