Rhencus macracanthus (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 : 163

Rhencus macracanthus (Günther, 1864) .

Bigspine Grunt or Longspine Grunt. To 46.4 cm ( 18.3 in) TL ( Hernández-Padilla et al. 2020). Boca Soledad ( 25°23’N, 112°06’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Ecuador ( Béarez 1996), including Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters ( Fricke et al. 2020); depth: 0–59 m ( 192 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). We follow Tavera et al. (2018) in moving Pomadasys macracanthus (Günther, 1864) to the genus Rhencus .