Novaculichthys taeniourus (Lacepède, 1801)

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 : 177

* Novaculichthys taeniourus (Lacepède, 1801) .

Rockmover Wrasse. To 30 cm (12 in) TL (Gomon in Fischer et al. 1995). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Yonaguni-jima Island, Japan ( Koeda et al. 2016); near tip of Baja California and Gulf of California to Colombia, including many offshore islands ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: 1–30 m (4–99 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002).