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Centropomus viridis Lockington, 1877. White Snook. Maximum size not clearly defined, perhaps 90–120 cm
(35.4–47.2 in) TL, but perhaps to as much as 150 cm (60 in) TL (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Southern
Baja California (26°45'N, 114°15'W; SIO 98-1) to Tumbes, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including
Gulf of California (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997).
Bays and estuaries to depth of 25 m (82 ft; Robertson and Allen 2002) and ascends streams (Allen and
Robertson 1994).
Family Moronidae — Temperate Basses
**Morone saxatilis (Walbaum, 1792). Striped Bass. To about 122 cm (4 ft) TL in eastern Pacific; 183 cm TL
(6 ft) in Atlantic. Atlantic and Pacific; Barkley Sound, British Columbia to just south of U.S.–Mexican
border. Along beaches and in bays. All in Miller and Lea (1972), as Roccus saxatilis. Anadromous (Moyle
2002).
Family Acropomatidae — Lanternbellies or Temperate Ocean-Basses
Some members of this family have a luminescent organ between the pelvic fins, for which they are called the
lanternbellies. Partly because the Alaskan species does not have this organ, Mecklenburg et al. (2002)
called them temperate ocean-basses from Eschmeyer and Herald (1983). The name chosen by the AFS–
ASIH fish names committee (Nelson et al. 2004) is lanternbellies. The relationships of the genus Howella
are unclear; sometimes placed in the family Howellidae.
Howella brodiei Ogilby, 1899. Pelagic Basslet. To 10 cm (4 in) TL (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). Pacific and
Atlantic oceans; north of San Francisco, northern California (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968) to Chile
(Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Mesopelagic, 30–1,829 m or more (100–6,000 ft; Fitch and Lavenberg
1968). The Atlantic form is regarded as a subspecies Howella brodiei atlantica (Post and Quéro 1991).
Howella sherborni (Norman, 1930). Shortspine Basslet. To 9.2 cm (3.6 in) SL (Post and Quéro 1991).
Circumglobal (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002); North Pacific Ocean south of Krenitzin Islands, Aleutian
Islands (Busby and Orr 1999) to at least northern California (Savinykh 1999). Pelagic, surface to about
2,700 m (8,858 ft; Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Family Polyprionidae — Wreckfishes
Stereolepis gigas Ayres, 1859. Giant Sea Bass. To 226 cm (7.4 ft) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Northern
Japan and Sea of Japan (Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984); Humboldt Bay, northern California (Miller
and Lea 1972) to Oaxaca, southern Mexico (Shane et al. in Moser 1996), including Gulf of California
(Miller and Lea 1972). At depths of 5–46 m (18–150 ft) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972; max.: Eschmeyer
and Herald 1983).
Family Serranidae — Sea Basses and Groupers
Alphestes immaculatus Breder, 1936. Pacific Hamlet or Pacific Mutton Hamlet. To 30 cm (11.8 in) TL (Allen
and Robertson 1994). Islas San Benito, central Baja California (L. McDonald, pers. comm. to M. L.),
mainland as far north as Laguna de San Ignacio, southern Baja California (De La Cruz-Agüero and
Cota-Gómez 1998) and Gulf of California (Allen and Robertson 1994) to Pucusana, Peru (Chirichigno
and Vélez 1998) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). At depths of 3–30 m (10–98 ft) (min.:
Pérez-España et al. 1996; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002). Also recently as Alphestes galapagensis.
Alphestes multiguttatus (Günther, 1867). Many-spotted Hamlet, Pacific Guaseta, or Rivulated Mutton
Hamlet. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Bahia Magdalena, southern Baja California
(SIO 64-54) to Caleta La Cruz, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Allen
and Robertson 1994). Intertidal and to 30 m (98 ft; Allen and Robertson 1994).
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