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 ** Acanthogobius flavimanus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) . Yellowfin Goby . To 25 cm ( 9.8 in ) TL in eastern Pacific; 30 cm ( 12 in ) TL in Japan ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983 ). Native to Russian coast of Sea of Japan ( Vasil’eva 2003 ), Japan , China , and Korea ; Tomales Bay ( Moyle 2002 ); Estero Americano, Sonoma County, northern California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California), San Francisco Bay, and other central and southern California bays and estuaries ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983 ) to Ensenada, northern Baja California (Watson in Moser 1996 ), and perhaps to Isla de Cedros, but without documentation ( Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015 ). Benthic; bays and estuaries and ascends rivers ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983 ); intertidal to 14 m ( 45 ft ) (min.: Allen 1999 ; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).