Acanthemblemaria hastingsi Lin & Galland, 2010

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 : 199

Acanthemblemaria hastingsi Lin & Galland, 2010 .

To 6 cm (2.4 in) TL ( Robertson and Allen 2015). Probably Punta Marquis (23°56’N, 11°52’W), southern Baja California and Gulf of California ( Lin and Galland 2010). 0–13 m (43 ft) ( Lin and Galland 2010). Previously as A. macrospilus —now known to be a species limited to mainland Mexico as far north as Mazatlán (Grantly Galland, pers. comm. to M.L.).