Atherinopsis californiensis Girard, 1854

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 : 92

Atherinopsis californiensis Girard, 1854 .

Jacksmelt. To 48.6 cm (19.1 in) TL ( Love et al. 2005). Yaquina Bay, Oregon ( Miller and Lea 1972) to at least Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California ( De La Cruz-Agüero et al. 1994), and in western and northeastern Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Nearshore; marine, brackish, and occasionally fresh water ( Moyle 2002); depth: surface and intertidal to at least 29 m (95 ft) (min.: Carlisle et al. 1960; max.: Limbaugh 1955); also found in hypersaline ponds ( Ruiz-Campos et al. 2000). A maximum depth record of 103 m (338 ft) (NWFSC-FRAM), from a bottom trawl haul, is likely in error and represents a midwater catch on deployment or retrieval.