Bodianus diplotaenia (Gill, 1862). Mexican Hogfish. To 76 cm (29.9 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994).

Isla Guadalupe (Thomson et al. 2000) and Isla de Cedros and Islas San Benito (Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015), central Baja California and Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Gomon in Fischer et al. 1995), Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Parenti and Randall (2000) note that the Chile reference is questionable. The next furthest south reference is at Pucusana, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998). Depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 3–98 m (10–321 ft) (min.: Pérez-España et al. 1996; max.: Auster et al. 2016).