Anchovia macrolepidota (Kner, 1863) .

Bigscale Anchovy. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL (Yáñez-Arancibia 1978). Laguna San Ignacio, southern Baja California (Dannemann and De La Cruz-Agüero 1993) to northern Gulf of California (Whitehead and Rodríguez-Sánchez in Fischer et al. 1995) to Zorritos, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998) . Marine and brackish waters (Romero-Berny et al. 2018); depth: surface to perhaps 18 m (59 ft) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).