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 Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835 . Purple Surgeonfish, Yellowfin Surgeonfish ,or Yellow-masked Surgeon. To 70 cm ( 27.6 in ) TL ( Robertson and Allen 2002 ). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Shimada in Nakabo 2002 ); Palos Verdes, southern California (Bill Power, pers. comm. to M.L.); Gulf of California (Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995 ) to Ecuador ( Béarez 1996 ), including tip of Baja California (Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995 ), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997 ). Marine and brackish waters ( Koeda et al. 2016 ); depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 148 m ( 3–485 ft ) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019 ; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019 ).