Paralabrax auroguttatus Walford, 1936 .

Goldspotted Sand Bass. To 71 cm (28 in) TL (Fitch and Schultz 1978). Santa Barbara, southern California (34°21’N, 119°37’W) (Love et al. 2019); Islas Guadalupe (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and just north of Punta Rosalia (28°40’N, 114°16’W) (M.L., unpubl. data), and Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015) to Gulf of California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to central Mexico (Robertson and Allen 2015). Depth: 2–217 m (5–712 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Gallo et al. 2020a).