Echiodon exsilium Rosenblatt, 1961.

Nocturnal Pearlfish.To 14.2 cm (5.6 in) SL (Personal communication:Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Tropical eastern Pacific Ocean (Markle in Nielsen et al. 1999); southern Baja California to Colombia (Beltrán-León and Rios Herrera 2000), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: 5–161 m (17–528 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006a).