Gibbonsia elegans (Cooper, 1864)

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Gibbonsia elegans (Cooper, 1864) .

Spotted Kelpfish. To 16 cm ( 6.3 in) TL ( Miller et al. 2008). San Francisco Bay (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California), northern California to Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California, including Isla Guadalupe ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 56 m ( 185 ft) (min.: Wells 1986; max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). The Spotted Kelpfish was mistakenly given the name Gibbonsia evides by Eschmeyer (1998); for explanation see Nelson et al. (2004:243).