Rypticus bicolor Valenciennes, 1846

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 : 147

Rypticus bicolor Valenciennes, 1846 .

Cortez Soapfish or Mottled Soapfish. To 30 cm (11.8 in) TL (Thomson et al. 2000). Bahía Santa Maria, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to northern Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998) , including Gulf of California (Thomson et al. 2000) and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface ( Robertson and Allen 2002), intertidal to 70 m (230 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2014; max.: Grove and Lavenberg 1997).