Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus (Bleeker, 1855) .

Coral Hawkfish. To probably no larger than 10 cm (3.9 in) TL (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hayashi in Nakabo 2002); Rocas Alijos, southern Baja California (Gotshall 1998), and 64 km (40 mi) north-west of Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.), into middle Gulf of California (Bussing and Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995), to Peru (Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: intertidal to 65 m (213 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2014; max.: Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018).