Bodianus diplotaenia (Gill, 1862)

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 : 175

Bodianus diplotaenia (Gill, 1862) .

Mexican Hogfish. To 76 cm (29.9 in) TL ( Allen and Robertson 1994). Isla Guadalupe (Thomson et al. 2000) and Isla de Cedros and Islas San Benito ( Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015), central Baja California and Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Chile ( Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Gomon in Fischer et al. 1995), Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and other offshore islands ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Parenti and Randall (2000) note that the Chile reference is questionable. The next furthest south reference is at Pucusana, Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998). Depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 3–98 m (10–321 ft) (min.: Pérez-España et al. 1996; max.: Auster et al. 2016).