Phtheirichthys lineatus (Menzies, 1791)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 156

Phtheirichthys lineatus (Menzies, 1791) .

Slender Suckerfish. To 76 cm (29.9 in) TL ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Circumglobal; southern California ( Miller and Lea 1972) to northern Peru ( Robertson and Allen 2015) , including Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2002), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic, pelagic; depth: surface to 100 m (328 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Robertson and Allen 2008).