Lobotes pacificus Gilbert, 1898 .

Pacific Tripletail. To 110 cm (43.3 in) TL (Carpenter in Carpenter 2003). In western Pacific Ocean as far north as Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002), Sea of Japan (Kharin et al. 2009), and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); in eastern Pacific from San Pedro Breakwater, southern California (Rounds and Feeney 1993) and San Diego Bay, southern California (Jim Hendricks, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Chimbote, Peru (Beltrán-León and Rios Herrara 2000), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Bays, brackish estuaries, coastal freshwaters, and sometimes well out to sea around floating objects (Allen and Robertson 1994); depth: surface to 50 m (164 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2015).