Kyphosus ocyurus

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 Ecua...

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Bibliographic Details
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
Perciformes
Kyphosidae
Kyphosus
Kyphosus ocyurus
Yukon
Pacific
Milton
Scripps
Diablo
Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5607852
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5607852
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Summary: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

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