Gibbonsia elegans (Cooper, 1864) .

Spotted Kelpfish. To 16 cm (6.3 in) TL (Miller et al. 2008). San Francisco Bay (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California), northern California to Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California, including Isla Guadalupe (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 56 m (185 ft) (min.: Wells 1986; max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). The Spotted Kelpfish was mistakenly given the name Gibbonsia evides by Eschmeyer (1998); for explanation see Nelson et al. (2004:243).