Platybelone argalus (Lesueur, 1821)

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 : 96

Platybelone argalus (Lesueur, 1821) .

Keeltail Needlefish. To 50 cm (19.7 in) SL (Collette and Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); Islas San Benito (28°28’N, 115°35’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Bahía de Sebastian Vizcaino (28°15’N, 114°10’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), central Baja California to Chile ( Pequeño 1989), including lower Gulf of California (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters ( Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface to 5 m (17 ft) ( Robertson and Allen 2002).