Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus (Bleeker, 1855)

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 : 171

Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus (Bleeker, 1855) .

Coral Hawkfish. To probably no larger than 10 cm (3.9 in) TL ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hayashi in Nakabo 2002); Rocas Alijos, southern Baja California ( Gotshall 1998), and 64 km (40 mi) north-west of Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.), into middle Gulf of California (Bussing and Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995), to Peru ( Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and other offshore islands ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: intertidal to 65 m (213 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2014; max.: Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018).