Synodus scituliceps Jordan & Gilbert, 1882

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 : 61

Synodus scituliceps Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 .

Lance Lizardfish or Shorthead Lizardfish. To 55 cm (21.6 in) TL ( Amezcua Linares 1996). Ensenada Bay (31°51’N, 116°38’W) (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California), northern Baja California, Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Laguna San Ignacio, southern Baja California ( De La Cruz-Agüero and Cota-Gómez 1998) into Gulf of California (Bussing and Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995) to Chile ( Pequeño 1989) and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters ( Romero-Berny et al. 2021); benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 172 m (3–564 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Zeballos Flor et al. 1998).