Common names: scorpionfish (English), lapón (Espanol), pez-escorpión (Espanol), rascacio (Espanol)
 
Pontinus vaughani Barnhart & Hubbs, 1946

Spotback scorpionfish

Head and body compressed; head very bony, with numerous spines; nape flat; without pit behind eye; eye relatively small (18-25% of head length); uppermost preopercular spine longest; teeth on roof of mouth at sides but not at front; slit present behind last gill arch; 14-21 gill rakers; dorsal XII, 2nd  and 3rd equally long, much longer than others 9-10 rays; anal III, 4; pectoral with longest rays in center, 19-20 rays, all unbranched; scales rough, present on cheek, behind eye and on chest; lateral line complete, 26-31 scales with tubes.

Head and body dark-pink, with yellowish wash to upper half; entire head and body with dense irregular, often elongate, pale blue spots; spinous dorsal with pink and blue spines, membranes yellowish pink, soft part with pink rays, yellowish membranes; tail, and anal rays pink, membranes yellowish pink; pelvic with pink and blue rays, yellowish pink membranes; pectoral rays pink with series of elongate dark spots, membranes pink with blue spots, base pink with dense blue spots.

Size: 57 cm.

Habitat: rubble bottoms.

Depth: 30-120 m.

Baja California Sur, the SW part of the Gulf of California and the Revillagigedos and Clipperton.