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Lobotes pacificus Gilbert 1898

Description

Lobotes pacificus Gilbert, 1898.

Pacific Tripletail. To 110 cm (43.3 in) TL (Carpenter in Carpenter 2003). In western Pacific Ocean as far north as Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002), Sea of Japan (Kharin et al. 2009), and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); in eastern Pacific from San Pedro Breakwater, southern California (Rounds and Feeney 1993) and San Diego Bay, southern California (Jim Hendricks, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Chimbote, Peru (Beltrán-León and Rios Herrara 2000), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Bays, brackish estuaries, coastal freshwaters, and sometimes well out to sea around floating objects (Allen and Robertson 1994); depth: surface to 50 m (164 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2015).

Notes

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 160, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

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  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Kharin, V. E., Vyshkvartsev, D. I. & Maznikova, O. A. (2009) About the taxonomic status of rare fish species Surinam tripletail Lobotes surinamensis (Lobotidae) and new discovery of this species in Russian waters. Journal of Ichthyology, 49, 32 - 38. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945209010044
  • Savinykh, V. F. (1998) Nekton composition of near-surface waters of the subarctic front zone in the northwest part of the Pacific Ocean according to the data of drift-net catches. Journal of Ichthyology, 38, 18 - 27.
  • Rounds, J. M. & Feeney, R. F. (1993) First record of the tripletail (Lobotes surinamensis, family Lobotidae) in California waters. California Fish and Game, 79, 167 - 168.
  • Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
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