Albula esuncula

Albula esuncula, the eastern Pacific bonefish, is a species of marine fish found in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, from the coast of Mazatlán, Mexico south to southern Peru, and west to the Galápagos Islands.

Albula esuncula
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Albuliformes
Family:	Albulidae
Genus:	Albula
Species:	A. esuncula
Binomial name
Albula esuncula (Garman, 1899)
Synonyms
Atopichthys esunculus Garman, 1899 Albula esunculus (Garman, 1899)

Taxonomy

Bonefish were once believed to be a single species (A. vulpes) with a global distribution, but nine different species have since been identified. There are three identified species in the Atlantic and six in the Pacific.^[2] It was previously identified as A. neoguinaica (a synonym for A. argentea), which is now known to be restricted to the western Pacific. Previously, it was thought to range as far north as southern California, but phylogenetic evidence found that this taxon was in fact a new species, Albula gilberti.^[1][3]