Microdesmus dorsipunctatus Dawson, 1968

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 : 207

Microdesmus dorsipunctatus Dawson, 1968 .

Black-spotted Worm Goby or Spotback Wormfish. To 12.5 cm (4.9 in) TL ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Bahía Almejas, southern Baja California (24°22’N, 111°42’W) (Personal communication:Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Gulf of California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Panama ( Dawson 1968). Benthic; marine, brackish, and fresh waters ( Fricke et al. 2020); depth: intertidal to 10 m (33 ft) (min.: Dawson 1968; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002).