Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Brachygenys californiensis (Steindachner, 1876) . Salema . To 30.3 cm ( 11.8 in ) TL ( Love et al. 2005 ). San Francisco Bay, central California ( Burton and Lea 2019 ) to northern Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998 ), including Gulf of California ( Miller and Lea 1972 ). Depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–40 m ( 4–131 ft ) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972 ; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Formerly Xenistius californiensis (Steindachner, 1876) and Haemulon californiensis (Steindachner, 1876) . We follow Tavera et al. (2018) and move this species to Brachygenys .