Kyphosus vaigiensis

• 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 vaigiensis; Knudsen; Milton; Pacific; Scripps; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5607854; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5607854

Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825). Brassy Chub, Blue-bronze Chub, or Striped Sea Chub. To 49.7 cm (19.6 in) FL (Kamikawa et al. 2015). Circumglobal (Fricke et al. 2020); western Pacific Ocean north to Yonaguni-jima Island, Japan (Koeda et al. 2016); Monterey Bay, California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to Antofagasta, northern Chile (Sielfeld et al. 2010), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and Gulf of California (Galván-Magaña et al. 1996). Depth: surface to 24 m (79 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Fricke et al. 2019). Pacific Coast individuals recently called Kyphosus analogus (Gill, 1862) and we follow Knudsen and Clements (2013) in the synonymy. 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