Common names: sand-perch (English), squirrelfish (English), camotillo (Espanol), menta (Espanol), serrano (Espanol)
 
Diplectrum sciurus Gilbert, 1892

Squirrel sand-perch,     Gulf sand-perch,     Gulf squirrelfish

Body elongate, slender, moderately compressed;  width of upper jawbone > width between eye and that bone; angle of preopercle a deep, square bony spur with 5-10 large spines, that spur wider than remainder of preopercular margin above; 32-41 gill rakers; dorsal fairly low, X, 11-13; pelvics under or a little before pectorals; anal III,7-8; tail base slender (~ 10% of SL); tail concave; scales moderately small, rough; snout and between eyes scaleless; 47-52 lateral line scales, 12-17 vertical rows scales on cheek. 


Greybrown,  body with 2 dark stripes and 8-10 dark bars; inside operculum not black;  spiny dorsal grey with 3 rows yellow spots, joining 2 rows yellow spots on soft fin; dark blotch at tail base; tail dark with irregular small yellow spots.

        Size: 17 cm.

Habitat: fine sand bottom.

Depth: 25-100 m.

        
Southern Baja and the western and the Gulf of California.