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 Hyporthodus niphobles (Gilbert & Starks, 1897) . Snowy Grouper or Star-studded Grouper . To 121 cm ( 47.6 in ) TL ( Robertson and Allen 2008 ). Near Bixby Bridge (about 36°22’N , 121°54’W ), central California ( Burton and Lea 2019 ) to Islas Lobos de Afuera, Peru ( Chirichigno 1974 ), including Gulf of California (Heemstra in Fischer et al. 1995 ) and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997 ). Depth: 1–450 m ( 3–1,476 ft ) (min.: González-Acosta et al. 1999 ; max.: Thomson et al. 2000). Heemstra (in Fischer et al. 1995 ) notes that some previous authors have referred to this species as Epinephelus niveatus (Valenciennes, 1828) . Formerly Epinephelus niphobles (Gilbert & Starks, 1897) .