Oplegnathus fasciatus (Temminck & Schlegel 1844)
- 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
- Oplegnathidae
- genus
- Oplegnathus
- species
- Oplegnathus fasciatus
description
Barred Knifejaw, Striped Knifejaw, or Striped Beak Fish. To 80 cm (31.5 in) TL (Ta et al. 2018). Primarily Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hawai’i (Nakabo 2002); reports of occasional individuals from Malta, Mediterranean Sea (Schembri et al. 2010); scattered localities in Washington, Oregon, and California as far south as Monterey Bay, central California, entering the eastern Pacific associated with debris from the 2011 Great Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (Ta et al. 2018). Depth: intertidal to 10 m (33 ft) (min.: Kwun et al. 2017; max.: Randall 2007).