Dermatolepis dermatolepis (Boulenger, 1895). Leather Bass. To 1 m (39.4 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). El Segundo, southern California (Moore 1991) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and such offshore islands as Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 2–90 m (8–295 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018).