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 Melichthys niger (Bloch, 1786) . Black Durgon or Black Triggerfish. To 51 cm ( 20 in ) TL ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983 ). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Hayashi in Nakabo 2002 ); San Diego, southern California to southern Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2002 ), Costa Rica , Panama , Colombia ( Robertson and Allen 2015 ), and Ecuador , including Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997 ). Not confirmed north of Mexico since it was reported off San Diego in the 1800s ( Miller and Lea 1972 , Eschmeyer and Herald 1983 ). A report of this fish from Metlatkatla, Alaska ( Karinen et al. 1985 ), represents a misidentified Balistes polylepis Steindachner, 1876 (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthic; depth: surface to 75 m ( 246 ft ) (min.: Lieske and Myers 2002 ; max.: Matsuura in Carpenter and Niem 2001 ).