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).