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
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Girella nigricans
(Ayres, 1860)
.
Opaleye
. To
66 cm
(
26 in
) TL (
Eschmeyer and Herald 1983
). Otter Rock,
Oregon
(
Bond and Olson 1985
) to
Cabo
San Lucas, southern
Baja California
(
Miller and Lea 1972
), with an isolated population in the
Gulf
of
California
(
Robertson and Allen 2002
). Depth: intertidal to about
32 m
(
105 ft
) (min.:
Eschmeyer and Herald 1983
; max.: M.L., unpubl. data); pelagic juveniles near surface, often associated with floating material (Watson in
Moser 1996
). Occasionally found in estuaries (
Ruiz-Campos
et al.
2000
).