Amphistichus rhodoterus (Agassiz, 1854). Redtail Surfperch. To 40.6 cm (16 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Kyuquot Channel, northwest Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Peden and Hughes 1986) to Avila Beach, central California (Dentler and Grossman 1980). Two specimens from southern California; one from near Point Dume (NWFSC-FRAM) and the other from the ocean off San Diego (Eigenmann 1892); Punta Colnett (M.L., unpubl. data) to off Punta Baja, northern Baja California (Rosales Casian 2011). Marine and brackish waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: intertidal to 7 m (24 ft) (Miller and Lea 1972). The NWFSC-FRAM database has a record of one individual caught in a bottom trawl at a depth of 73 m (239 ft); this extreme record is without documentation.

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 172, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008