Kyphosus ocyurus ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 169

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).