Haemulon flaviguttatum 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 : 162

Haemulon flaviguttatum Gill, 1862 .

Cortez Grunt or Yellowspotted Grunt. To 47.9 cm (18.9 in) TL (Rojo-Vázquez et al. 2009). Three collected in southern California: Newport Bay ( Love et al. 2005), Mission Bay, and San Diego Bay ( Lea and Rosenblatt 1992); Bahía Santa Maria, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), throughout Gulf of California (McKay and Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995) to Peru ( Robertson and Allen 2002) . Depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–107 m (3–351 ft) (min.: Gonzáles-Acosta et al. 1999; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996).