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 Atherinops affinis (Ayres, 1860) . Topsmelt . To 38.8 cm ( 15.3 in ) TL (M.L., unpubl. data). Near Sooke Harbour, Vancouver Island, British Columbia to Gulf of California ( Miller and Lea 1972 ); not in central or southern Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2002 ). Nearshore; marine, brackish, and very occasionally nearly fresh waters ( Moyle 2002 ); depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California ), intertidal to 26 m ( 85 ft ) (min: Chotkowski 1994 ; max.: Limbaugh 1955 ). A maximum depth record of 63 m ( 207 ft ) (NWFSC-FRAM), from a bottom trawl haul, is likely in error and represents a midwater catch on deployment or retrieval.