Sphoeroides lobatus (Steindachner, 1870)

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 : 226

Sphoeroides lobatus (Steindachner, 1870) .

Longnose Puffer. To at least 30.3 cm (11.9 in) TL (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.). Redondo Beach, southern California ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997) to Salinas (33°57’S), central Chile ( Brito 2003), including southern and central Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2002), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters ( Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–107 m (3–351 ft) (min.: Allen and Robertson 1994; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996).