Opistognathus rhomaleus 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 : 150

Opistognathus rhomaleus Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 .

Giant Jawfish. To more than 50.8 cm (20.3 in) TL ( Thomson et al. 1979). Bahía Ballenas, southern Baja California (Watson in Moser 1996) into northern Gulf of California to west Panama ( Robertson and Allen 2008), and Islas Revillagigedo. Benthic; depth: 3–70 m (10–230 ft) ( Robertson and Allen 2015). The correct date for the species name is 1882 ( Eschmeyer 1998), not 1881 as seen elsewhere.