niphobles, Epinephelus Gilbert [C. H.] & Starks [E. C.] in Gilbert 1897:442 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 19 (no. 1115); ref. 1629] Magdalena Bay, Baja California, Mexico, 24°35'30"N, 112°05'W, Albatross station 3041. Holotype (unique): USNM 47582. •Valid as Epinephelus niphobles Gilbert & Starks 1897 -- (Heemstra & Randall 1993:203 [ref. 21042], Allen & Robertson 1994:109 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:92 [ref. 23101], Heemstra in Fischer et al. 1995:1596 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:285 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:323 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:354 [ref. 24555], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:211 [ref. 25013], Lea & Rosenblatt 2000:121 [ref. 25206], Thomson et al. 2000:83 [ref. 25640], Heemstra et al. 2003:1347 [ref. 27060], Nelson et al. 2004:127 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:111 [ref. 37547], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:191 [ref. 30957], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:397 [ref. 34894]). •Valid as Hyporthodus niphobles (Gilbert & Starks 1897) -- (Craig & Hastings 2007:17 [ref. 29046], Craig et al. 2011:278 [ref. 31786], Page et al. 2013:130 [ref. 32708], Barriga Salazar 2014:119 [ref. 35745], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:608 [ref. 34923], Fourriére et al. 2016:444 [ref. 34668], Kells et al. 2016:226 [ref. 35888], Robertson et al. 2017:85 [ref. 35676], Ma & Craig 2018:455 [ref. 36100], Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018:7 [ref. 36248], Burton & Lea 2019:73 [ref. 37205], Parenti & Randall 2020:85 [ref. 37354], Walker et al. 2020:4 [ref. 37499], Love et al. 2021:146 [ref. 39279], Grove et al. 2022:21 [ref. 41326], Page et al. 2023:196 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:321 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:9 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Hyporthodus niphobles (Gilbert & Starks 1897). Epinephelidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: central California (U.S.A.) south to Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.