Bodianus pulcher (Ayres, 1854)

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 : 175

Bodianus pulcher (Ayres, 1854) .

California Sheephead. To 91.4 cm ( 36 in) TL ( Miller and Lea 1972). Monterey Bay, central California to Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California ( Miller and Lea 1972), including Gulf of California (Gomon in Fischer et al. 1995). Depth: intertidal to 150 m ( 492 ft) (min.: Mitchell 1953; max.: Aburto-Oropeza et al. 2011). We follow Baliga and Law (2016) and Santini et al. (2016) and remove this species from the genus Semicossyphus .