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 Micrometrus minimus (Gibbons, 1854) . Dwarf Perch or Dwarf Surfperch. To 16 cm ( 6.3 in ) TL ( Miller and Lea 1972 ). Salt Point, northern California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to Punta Baja (central Baja California) ( Ruiz-Campos et al. 2010b ), and Isla de Cedros, central Baja California ( Miller and Lea 1972 ). Depth: intertidal to 20 m ( 66 ft ) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972 ; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). One individual collected from the mouth of a coastal creek at a salinity of 1.1 ppt ( Ruiz-Campos et al. 2000 ). Also anomalously deep captures with bottom trawls reported at 46 m ( 150 ft ) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and 73 m ( 240 ft ) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).