Fish · La Saladita, Guerrero

Eastern Pacific Bonito

Sarda chiliensis

Spanish: Bonito del Pacífico

Eastern Pacific Bonito (Sarda chiliensis)
Photographed by kylie-phillips on iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC · taken in Rusty Shed, not near La Saladita

Sarda chiliensis, the eastern Pacific bonito, is a marine species of bonito. It ranges from Ecuador to Chile. Sarda lineolata, which ranges from Alaska to Mexico has been considered a subspecies, as Sarda chiliensis lineolata, but this treatment renders the species geographically disjunct.

TaxonomyActinopterygii › Scombriformes › Scombridae
Local recordsNot recorded by research-grade iNaturalist observations within about 50 km; listed from the site's curated guide
Global records316 on iNaturalist

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Cite as: “Eastern Pacific Bonito (Sarda chiliensis) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/sarda-chiliensis/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.