Centropomus nigrescens Günther, 1864 .

Black Snook. To 117 cm (46 in) TL (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Paita, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including lower Gulf of California (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: to 25 m (82 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). Centropomus nigrescens Günther, 1864, is an invalid name, as it is preoccupied by C. nigrescens Risso, 1810, a species in the family Moronidae (Eschmeyer 1998) .