Gorgasia punctata Meek & Hildebrand, 1923 .

Dotted Garden Eel or Peppered Garden Eel. To at least 50 cm (19.7 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Bahía Santa Maria (24°46.1’N, 112°16’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Panama (Smith in Fischer et al. 1995), including Gulf of California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Benthic; depth: less than 0.3 to 30 m (1–99 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002).