Pseudupeneus grandisquamis (Gill, 1863)

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 : 168

Pseudupeneus grandisquamis (Gill, 1863) .

Bigscale Goatfish or Red Goatfish. To about 30.6 cm (12 in) TL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). San Onofre, southern California to Chile ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), including Gulf of California (Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–67 m (3–220 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Zeballos Flor et al. 1998). The Mulloidichthys dentatus noted from southern California ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) was based on a misidentification of P. grandisquamis ( Lea and Rosenblatt 2000) .