Hyporthodus niphobles (Gilbert & Starks, 1897)

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 : 146

Hyporthodus niphobles (Gilbert & Starks, 1897) .

Snowy Grouper or Star-studded Grouper. To 121 cm (47.6 in) TL ( Robertson and Allen 2008). Near Bixby Bridge (about 36°22’N, 121°54’W), central California ( Burton and Lea 2019) to Islas Lobos de Afuera, Peru ( Chirichigno 1974), including Gulf of California (Heemstra in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: 1–450 m (3–1,476 ft) (min.: González-Acosta et al. 1999; max.: Thomson et al. 2000). Heemstra (in Fischer et al. 1995) notes that some previous authors have referred to this species as Epinephelus niveatus (Valenciennes, 1828) . Formerly Epinephelus niphobles (Gilbert & Starks, 1897) .