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Pliosteostoma lutipinnis (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882). Yellowfin Herring. To 18 cm (7.1 in) TL (Whitehead
and Rodriguez-Sanchez in Fischer et al. 1995). Southern Baja California (Whitehead and Rodriguez-
Sanchez in Fischer et al. 1995) to Colombia (Allen and Robertson 1994), including Gulf of California
(Whitehead and Rodriguez-Sanchez in Fischer et al. 1995). Coastal, including estuaries to a depth of
50 m (164 ft; Amezcua Linares 1996).
Family Clupeidae — Herrings
**Alosa sapidissima (Wilson, 1811). American Shad. To 76 cm (30 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Native
to Atlantic; intentionally introduced to Pacific, spread to Kamchatka, Russia to southeastern Bering
Sea and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Bahia de Todos Santos, northern Baja California
(Miller and Lea 1972). Surface to 250 m (820 ft), possibly to 375 m (1,230 ft; Allen and Smith 1988).
Anadromous.
Clupea pallasii Valenciennes, 1847. Pacific Herring. To 46 cm (18 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Korea
and Japan to Arctic Ocean off Alaska and to northern Baja California; Arctic Canada to White Sea
(Whitehead 1985). Marine and brackish waters (Safranov and Nikiforov 2003). Surface to 250 m (820 ft),
almost always captured above 150 m (492 ft; Whitehead 1985). The greater depths occasionally reported
probably represent fish entering the net above the maximum tow depth (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
**Dorosoma petenense (Günther, 1867). Threadfin Shad. To 33 cm (13 in) TL (Moyle 2002). Native to the
southeastern United States and south to Belize. Introduced to West Coast. Off Oregon (Eschmeyer and
Herald 1983) to San Diego Bay, southern California (SIO 82-23) and Gulf of California (Whitehead and
Rodriguez-Sanchez in Fischer et al. 1995). Shallow fresh, brackish, and marine waters.
Etrumeus teres (DeKay, 1842). Round Herring. To 30.5 cm (12 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Circumglobal;
Japan (Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); Monterey Bay, central California to Chile (Miller and Lea 1972),
including Gulf of California (Whitehead and Rodriguez-Sanchez in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos
(Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Pelagic (Allen and Robertson 1994); near shore (Grove and Lavenberg 1997),
including surf zone (Suda et al. 2002), to depth of 125 m (410 ft; Zeballos et al. 1998). The maximum
depth capture was made by bottom trawl and it is possible this species was captured in midwater.
Harengula thrissina (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882). Flatiron Herring. To 18.4 cm (7.25 in) TL (Miller and Lea
1972). La Jolla, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Callao, Peru (Beltrán-León and Rios
Herrera 2000), including Gulf of California (Whitehead and Rodriguez-Sanchez in Fischer et al. 1995).
Inshore, 1 m (3 ft; González-Acosta et al. 1999) to at least 7 m (23 ft; Godinez-Dominguez et al. 2000).
Lile nigrofasciata Castro-Aguirre, Ruiz-Campos, & Balart, 2002. Blackstripe Herring. To 10.4 cm SL (4.1 in).
Bahia Magdalena, southern California and Gulf of California to northern Peru. Lagoons and other
shallow littoral waters. All in Castro-Aguirre et al. (2002).
Lile stolifera (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882). Pacific Piquintinga or Striped Herring. To 15 cm (5.9 in) TL (Allen and
Robertson 1994). Bahia Ballenas (26°40'N, 113°30'W), southern Baja California (Grove and Lavenberg
1994) to Puerto Pizarro, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1974), including Gulf of California (Whitehead
and Rodriguez-Sanchez in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Castro-
Aguirre et al. (2002) report this species has a disjunct distribution and is absent between northern
Nayarit, Mexico and Costa Rica. Inshore, including brackish estuaries (Allen and Robertson 1994), as
shallow as 1 m (3 ft; González-Acosta et al. 1999).
Opisthonema libertate (Günther, 1867). Deepbody Thread Herring or Pacific Thread Herring. To about
30 cm (11.8 in) TL (Amezcua Linares 1996). Port Hueneme, southern California (Lea and Rosenblatt
2000) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Whitehead and Rodriguez-Sanchez in
Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Nearshore (Allen and Robertson
1994), 1 m (3 ft; González-Acosta et al. 1999) to at least 70 m (230 ft; Velasco and Thiel 2002).
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