Halichoeres nicholsi ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)

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 : 177

Halichoeres nicholsi ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) .

Spinster Wrasse. To 40.6 cm (16 in) TL (J. Snow, pers. comm. to Milton Love). Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California ( Gotshall 1998); about Punta Eugenia, central Baja California ( Robertson and Allen 2015) and Gulf of California (Gomon in Fischer et al. 1995) to Ecuador ( Béarez 1996), including vicinity of Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Gomon in Fischer et al. 1995), Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and other offshore islands ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: intertidal to 82 m (269 ft) (min.: Thomson and Lehner 1976: max.: Thomson et al. 2000).