Phanerodon vacca (Girard, 1855)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 173

Phanerodon vacca (Girard, 1855) .

Pile Perch. To 44.2 cm (17.4 in) TL ( Miller and Lea 1972). Southern British Columbia (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Bahía Playa Maria (28°52’N, 114°30’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) on mainland, and Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California ( Miller and Lea 1972), and Isla de Cedros and Isla Natividad ( Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015). A reported occurrence from Wrangell, south-eastern Alaska lacks documentation (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: intertidal to 132 m (433 ft) (min.: Chotkowski 1994; max.: DFO); reported to 210 m (690 ft) ( Love et al. 2005), but apparently without documentation. Recently as Rhacochilus vacca (Girard, 1854) and Damalichthys vacca Girard, 1854 . We follow the genetic studies of Longo and Bernardi (2015) and Longo et al. (2018) and place this species in the genus Phanerodon .