Haemulon maculicauda (Gill, 1862) .

Spottail Grunt. To 30 cm (11.8 in) TL (McKay and Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995). Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Gotshall 1998) and Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (De La Cruz-Agüero et al. 1997) to Ecuador (Robertson and Allen 2015), and probably to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Galván-Magaña et al. 1996). Depth: intertidal to 37 m (120 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2014; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).