Kyphosus elegans (Peters, 1869)

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 elegans (Peters, 1869) .

Cortez Chub or Cortez Sea Chub. To 53 cm (20.9 in) TL ( Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004).Widely found throughout Pacific ( Fricke et al. 2020); western Pacific as far north as southern Japan ( Fricke et al. 2020); Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and in Gulf of California (Sommer in Fischer et al. 1995) to Peru ( Robertson and Allen 2015) , including Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters ( Romero-Berny et al. 2021); often associates with floating material: depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 40 m (131 ft) (min.: Grove and Lavenberg 1997; max.: Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004).