Gerres simillimus Regan, 1907 .

Pacific Yellowfin Mojarra. To 47.5 cm (18.7 in) TL (Rodriquez-Romero et al. 2008). Boca Soledad (25°11’N, 112°05’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Callao, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and lower two-thirds of Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Marine, brackish, and nearly fresh waters (Allen and Robertson 1994, Romero-Berny 2018); depth: 0.3–107 m (1–351 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996). Previously referred to as Gerres cinereus (Walbaum, 1792), now limited to the western Atlantic (Fricke et al. 2020).