Author: Poss, McCosker & Baldwin, 2010
Remark: Species assigned under <i>Scorpaenodes</i> pending future cladistic study.  Generic reassignment may prove necessary for limits of both <i>Scorpaenodes</i> and <i>Thysanichthys</i> are unclear (Ref. ).
Comments: Collected and observed from rocky reefs, often in association with sponges, upon the platform and along the margins of the Galápagos archipelago at 200-412 m; photographed at 160-300 m (Ref. 83997).