Symphurus melanurus Clark, 1936

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 : 223

Symphurus melanurus Clark, 1936 .

Drab Tonguefish. To 24.1 cm ( 9.5 in) TL ( Amezcua and Aguirre 2007). Southern Baja California ( 25°18’N, 112°11’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to northern Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998) , including southern Gulf of California (Munroe et al. in Fischer et al. 1995). Benthic; marine and brackish waters (Munroe et al. in Fischer et al. 1995); depth: 1–65 m ( 3–213 ft) (min.: Munroe et al. in Fischer et al. 1995; max.: Vargas et al. 2020).