Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Halichoeres melanotis (Gilbert, 1890) . Golden Wrasse . To 15 cm ( 5.9 in ) TL (Allen and Roberts 1994). Isla de Cedros and Islas San Benito, central Baja California ( Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015 ) to Colombia ( Robertson and Allen 2002 ), including Gulf of California ( Allen and Robertson 1994 ), and Islas Galápagos ( McCosker and Rosenblatt 2010 ).Depth: 1–40 m ( 3–132 ft ) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002 ).