Kyphosus elegans (Peters, 1869) .

Cortez Chub or Cortez Sea Chub. To 53 cm (20.9 in) TL (Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004).Widely found throughout Pacific (Fricke et al. 2020); western Pacific as far north as southern Japan (Fricke et al. 2020); Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and in Gulf of California (Sommer in Fischer et al. 1995) to Peru (Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Romero-Berny et al. 2021); often associates with floating material: depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 40 m (131 ft) (min.: Grove and Lavenberg 1997; max.: Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004).