Deckertichthys aureolus ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)

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 : 160

Deckertichthys aureolus ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) .

Golden Mojarra. To 20 cm (7.9 in) ( Robertson and Allen 2008). Just south of Bahía San Quintin [“Santa Maria Bay ” (30°23.8’N, 115°56’W)], northern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Peru, including Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2008). Depth: 0 to 43 m (140 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2015; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). We follow Vergara-Solana et al. (2014) and remove this species from the genus Diapterus .