''Albula esuncula'', the eastern Pacific bonefish, is a species of marine fish found in the eastern tropical

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, from the coast of

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south to southern

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, and west to the

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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. 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

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, but phylogenetic evidence found that this taxon was in fact a new species, ''

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5881623 Albuliformes Fish of the Pacific Ocean Taxa named by Samuel Garman Fish described in 1899