Lobotes pacificus Gilbert, 1898

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 : 160

Lobotes pacificus Gilbert, 1898 .

Pacific Tripletail. To 110 cm (43.3 in) TL (Carpenter in Carpenter 2003). In western Pacific Ocean as far north as Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002), Sea of Japan ( Kharin et al. 2009), and southern Kuril Islands ( Savinykh 1998); in eastern Pacific from San Pedro Breakwater, southern California ( Rounds and Feeney 1993) and San Diego Bay, southern California (Jim Hendricks, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Chimbote, Peru (Beltrán-León and Rios Herrara 2000) , including Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2015). Bays, brackish estuaries, coastal freshwaters, and sometimes well out to sea around floating objects ( Allen and Robertson 1994); depth: surface to 50 m (164 ft) ( Robertson and Allen 2015).