Girella nigricans (Ayres, 1860)

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 : 168

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).