Rhinogobiops nicholsii (Bean, 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 : 206

Rhinogobiops nicholsii (Bean, 1882) .

Blackeye Goby. To 15 cm (6 in) TL ( Follett 1970). Yakutat, eastern Gulf of Alaska (Personal communication:University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; confirmed by Katherine Maslenikov) to south of Punta Rompiente, southern Baja California ( Miller and Lea 1972), and Isla Guadalupe (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), central Baja California. Benthic; depth: intertidal to at least 195 m (640 ft) (min.: Follett 1970; max.: M.L., unpubl. data).A record of 640 m (2,100 ft) ( Barnhart 1936) is without documentation. Classified until recently in the genus Coryphopterus .