Mycteroperca xenarcha Jordan, 1888 .

Broomtail Grouper. To 150 cm (59 in) TL (Heemstra in Fischer et al. 1995). San Francisco, northern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Callao, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Heemstra in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Miller and Lea 1972). Marine and brackish waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 70 m (230 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002).