Halichoeres notospilus (Günther, 1864)

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 : 177

Halichoeres notospilus (Günther, 1864) .

Banded Wrasse. To 28.5 cm (11.2 in) TL (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.). Isla de Cedros and Isla Natividad, central Baja California ( Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015); on mainland from Bahía San Juanico (26°13.8’N, 112°28.6’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) into Gulf of California (Gomon in Fischer et al. 1995) to Islas Lobos de Afuera, Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998) and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters ( Fricke et al. 2020); depth: intertidal to 10 m (33 ft) (min: Ruiz-Campos et al. 2010b; max.: Allen and Robertson 1994).