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
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Pseudobalistes naufragium
(
Jordan
& Starks, 1895
)
.
Blunthead Triggerfish
or Stone Triggerfish. To
1 m
(
39.4 in
) TL (
Allen and Robertson 1994
). Bahía Almejas (
24°22.7’N
,
111°42.6’W
), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to
Chile
(
Pequeño 1989
), including Gulf of California (
Robertson and Allen 2015
), and Islas Galápagos (
Grove and Lavenberg 1997
). Marine and brackish waters (
Romero-Berny 2018
); benthic; depth:
0.6–100 m
(
2–328 ft
) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.:
Amezcua Linares 1996
). Extensive molecular analyses of the species in the family
Balistidae
strongly suggests that this species should be called
Balistes naufragium
Jordan
and Starks, 1895
(
McCord and Westneat 2016
).