Rypticus bicolor Valenciennes, 1846 .

Cortez Soapfish or Mottled Soapfish. To 30 cm (11.8 in) TL (Thomson et al. 2000). Bahía Santa Maria, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Thomson et al. 2000) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface (Robertson and Allen 2002), intertidal to 70 m (230 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2014; max.: Grove and Lavenberg 1997).