Phanerodon vacca (Girard, 1855) .
Pile Perch. To 44.2 cm (17.4 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Southern British Columbia (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Bahía Playa Maria (28°52’N, 114°30’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) on mainland, and Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Miller and Lea 1972), and Isla de Cedros and Isla Natividad (Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015). A reported occurrence from Wrangell, south-eastern Alaska lacks documentation (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: intertidal to 132 m (433 ft) (min.: Chotkowski 1994; max.: DFO); reported to 210 m (690 ft) (Love et al. 2005), but apparently without documentation. Recently as Rhacochilus vacca (Girard, 1854) and Damalichthys vacca Girard, 1854 . We follow the genetic studies of Longo and Bernardi (2015) and Longo et al. (2018) and place this species in the genus Phanerodon .