Cephalopholis colonus (Valenciennes, 1846) .

Pacific Creolefish. To 43 cm (16.9 in) TL (Prado and Béarez 2004). San Diego, southern California (Robins et al. 1991) to Islas Lobos de Afuera, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Heemstra in Fischer et al. 1995) and such offshore islands as Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface (McCosker et al. 1997), 1–120 m (4–394 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max. Robertson and Allen 2015). Previously Paranthias colonus .