Sphoeroides lobatus (Steindachner, 1870). Longnose Puffer. To at least 30.3 cm (11.9 in) TL (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.). Redondo Beach, southern California (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) to Salinas (33°57’S), central Chile (Brito 2003), including southern and central Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–107 m (3–351 ft) (min.: Allen and Robertson 1994; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996).

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008