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).