Brachygenys californiensis (Steindachner, 1876)

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 : 162

Brachygenys californiensis (Steindachner, 1876) .

Salema. To 30.3 cm (11.8 in) TL ( Love et al. 2005). San Francisco Bay, central California ( Burton and Lea 2019) to northern Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California ( Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–40 m (4–131 ft) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Formerly Xenistius californiensis (Steindachner, 1876) and Haemulon californiensis (Steindachner, 1876) . We follow Tavera et al. (2018) and move this species to Brachygenys .