Haemulopsis nitida (Steindachner, 1869)

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 : 163

Haemulopsis nitida (Steindachner, 1869) .

Shining Grunt, Shortspine Grunt, or Silver Grunt. To 30 cm (11.8 in) TL (McKay and Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995). Bahía San Juanico (26°13’N, 112°28’W) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Peru ( Velasco and Thiel 2002) , including Gulf of California (McKay and Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995). Depth: 0–50 m (164 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Velasco and Thiel 2002). Frequently seen as Haemulopsis nitidus ( Fricke et al. 2020) .