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 vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) . Brassy Chub , Blue-bronze Chub, or Striped Sea Chub. To 49.7 cm ( 19.6 in ) FL ( Kamikawa et al. 2015 ). Circumglobal ( Fricke et al. 2020 ); western Pacific Ocean north to Yonaguni-jima Island, Japan ( Koeda et al. 2016 ); Monterey Bay, California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to Antofagasta , northern Chile ( Sielfeld et al. 2010 ), including Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997 ), and Gulf of California ( Galván-Magaña et al. 1996 ). Depth: surface to 24 m ( 79 ft ) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Fricke et al. 2019 ). Pacific Coast individuals recently called Kyphosus analogus (Gill, 1862) and we follow Knudsen and Clements (2013) in the synonymy.