Microspathodon dorsalis (Gill, 1862)

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 : 174

Microspathodon dorsalis (Gill, 1862) .

Giant Damselfish. To 37.8 cm (14.9 in) TL (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997) and central Gulf of California to Ecuador ( Béarez 1996), including Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997) and many other offshore islands ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: intertidal to 25 m (83 ft) (min.: Weaver 1970; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002).