Haemulon maculicauda (Gill, 1862)

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Haemulon maculicauda (Gill, 1862) .

Spottail Grunt. To 30 cm (11.8 in) TL (McKay and Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995). Isla de Cedros, central Baja California ( Gotshall 1998) and Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California ( De La Cruz-Agüero et al. 1997) to Ecuador ( Robertson and Allen 2015), and probably to northern Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998) , including Gulf of California ( Galván-Magaña et al. 1996). Depth: intertidal to 37 m (120 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2014; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).