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Acanthogobius flavimanus

Description

** Acanthogobius flavimanus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).

Yellowfin Goby. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL in eastern Pacific; 30 cm (12 in) TL in Japan (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Native to Russian coast of Sea of Japan (Vasil’eva 2003), Japan, China, and Korea; Tomales Bay (Moyle 2002); Estero Americano, Sonoma County, northern California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California), San Francisco Bay, and other central and southern California bays and estuaries (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to Ensenada, northern Baja California (Watson in Moser 1996), and perhaps to Isla de Cedros, but without documentation (Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015). Benthic; bays and estuaries and ascends rivers (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983); intertidal to 14 m (45 ft) (min.: Allen 1999; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 203, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
  • Vasil'eva, E. D. (2003) An annotated catalogue of fishes and fish-like organisms living in seas of Russia and adjacent countries: Part 4. Gobioidei. Journal of Ichthyology, 43, S 41 - S 56.
  • Moyle, P. B. (2002) Inland Fishes of California. Revised and Expanded. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
  • Ramirez-Valdez, A., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Palacios-Salgado, D. S., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Dominguez Guerro, I., Hinojosa Arango, G., Correa S., F., Villasenor-Derbez, J. C., Cota-Nieto, J. J. & Hernadez-Velasco, A. (2015) The nearshore fishes of the Cedros Archipelago (north-eastern Pacific) and their biogeographic affinities. CalCOFI Reports, 56, 143 - 167.
  • Allen, L. G. (1999) Fisheries Inventory and Utilization of San Diego Bay, San Diego, California. Final report, sampling periods July 1994 to April 1999. Prepared for the United States Navy, Department of Defense, Agreement N 68711 - 94 - LT- 4033.