Micrometrus minimus (Gibbons, 1854) .

Dwarf Perch or Dwarf Surfperch. To 16 cm (6.3 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Salt Point, northern California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to Punta Baja (central Baja California) (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2010b), and Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: intertidal to 20 m (66 ft) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). One individual collected from the mouth of a coastal creek at a salinity of 1.1 ppt (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2000). Also anomalously deep captures with bottom trawls reported at 46 m (150 ft) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and 73 m (240 ft) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).