Elops affinis Regan, 1909 .

Machete or Pacific Ladyfish. To 91.4 cm (36 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Mandalay Beach, southern California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to Talara, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Whitehead and Rodríguez-Sánchez in Fischer et al. 1995). Marine and brackish waters (Romero-Berny et al. 2018); depth: 1–10 m (4–33 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max. Robertson and Allen 2002).