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 Arothron meleagris (Anonymous, 1798) . Guineafowl Puffer or Guineafowl Pufferfish. To 45 cm TL ( 17.7 in ) TL ( Kuiter and Tonozuka 2001 ). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Ogasawara Islands, Japan (Yamada in Nakabo 2002 ); Todos Santos area ( 23°24.6’N , 110°13.8’W ) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); tip of Baja California into central and southern Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2002 ) to Peru ( Pequeño 1989 ), including Islas Galápagos, and other offshore islands ( Robertson and Allen 2002 ). Benthic; depth: 1–144 ( 3–472 ft ) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002 ; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019 ). The original description is usually ascribed to Lacepède; Fricke et al. (2020) explain why Anonymous is correct.