Halichoeres dispilus (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 : 176

Halichoeres dispilus (Günther, 1864) .

Chameleon Wrasse. To 28 cm (11 in) TL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Islas San Benito ( Cowen 1985), and Isla de Cedros, central Baja California ( Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015), to northern Chile (20°34’S) ( Vargas et al. 1998), including Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and Gulf of California (Gomon in Fischer et al. 1995). Northernmost mainland site is Isla Asuncion (27°06’N, 114°18’W), southern Baja California (M.L., unpubl. data). Marine and brackish waters ( Romero-Berny et al. 2021); depth: intertidal to 76 m (3–249 ft) (min.: Thomson and Lehner 1976; max.: Gomon in Fischer et al. 1995).