Tylosurus pacificus

• 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; Tylosurus; Tylosurus pacificus; Yukon; Baja; Pacific; Blanco; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5603736; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603736

Tylosurus pacificus (Steindachner, 1876). Pacific Agujón. To 130 cm (51.8 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Punta San Juanico (26°53’N, 112°17’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California), and Gulf of California to Cabo Blanco, Peru, including one record from Islas Galápagos (Collette and Banford 2001). Surface to 10 m (33 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). Previously known in the eastern North Pacific as Tylosurus acus (Lacepède, 1803) or T. acus imperiali s (Lacepède, 1803); Collette and Banford (2001) confirmed full species rank as T. pacificus. 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