Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 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 ).