Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)

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 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.