Lutjanus peru (Nichols & Murphy, 1922) .

Pacific Red Snapper. To 99.2 cm (39 in) TL (Rocha-Olivares 1998). La Jolla, southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Bahía Santa Maria, southern Baja California (Watson and Brogan in Moser 1996) to Huermey, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (McCosker and Rosenblatt 2010), and throughout Gulf of California (Allen 1985). Depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 18 m (60 ft) to at least 91 m (300 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.).