Haemulon flaviguttatum Gill, 1862 .

Cortez Grunt or Yellowspotted Grunt. To 47.9 cm (18.9 in) TL (Rojo-Vázquez et al. 2009). Three collected in southern California: Newport Bay (Love et al. 2005), Mission Bay, and San Diego Bay (Lea and Rosenblatt 1992); Bahía Santa Maria, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), throughout Gulf of California (McKay and Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995) to Peru (Robertson and Allen 2002) . Depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–107 m (3–351 ft) (min.: Gonzáles-Acosta et al. 1999; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996).