Aluterus scriptus (Osbeck, 1765) .

Scrawled Filefish or Scrawled Leatherjacket. To 1.1 m (43.3 in) TL (Lieske and Myers 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hiyashi in Nakabo 2002); Rocas Alijos, southern Baja California(Gotshall1998),Todos Santos area(23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), southern Baja California (Bussing and Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including Gulf of California (Bussing and Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995), Easter Island (Pequeño 1997), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 176 m (577 ft) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019).