Aluterus scriptus (Osbeck, 1765)

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 : 224

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).