Kyphosus ocyurus (Jordan & Gilbert 1882)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Kyphosidae
- genus
- Kyphosus
- species
- Kyphosus ocyurus
description
Bluestriped Chub or Rainbow Sea Chub. To 70 cm (27.6 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Mostly eastern Pacific Ocean; one record from Japan (Araga in Masuda et al. 1984); off Diablo Canyon, central California (Andrew Harmer, pers. comm. to M. L.) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), apparently just into Gulf of California (23 ° 06 ’ N, 109 ° 12 ’ W) (John Snow, pers. comm. to M. L.), but including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Inshore and pelagic around floating material (Allen and Robertson 1994); depth: 0 – 30 m (98 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2008). Smaller individuals associate with drifting material (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Recently as Sectator ocyurus (Jordan and Gilbert, 1882).