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Opisthonema medirastre Berry & Barrett, 1963. Middling Thread Herring. To 27.5 cm (10.8 in) TL (Amezcua
Linares 1996). Redondo Beach, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Huacho, Peru (Chirichigno
and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Whitehead and Rodriguez-Sanchez in Fischer et al. 1995).
As shallow as 3.7 m (12 ft; M. Shane, pers. comm. to M. L.).
Sardinops sagax (Jenyns, 1842). Pacific Sardine. To 41 cm (16.1 in) TL (Clemens and Wilby 1961). North
Pacific from south of Japan to southern Kamchatka and Commander Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002),
and southeastern Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Guaymas, Mexico (Miller and Lea 1972), including
Gulf of California (Galván-Magaña et al. 1996) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997); other
populations in western and eastern South Pacific, and off southern Africa (Whitehead 1985). Surface
and surf zone to 150 m (495 ft) (min.: Carlisle et al. 1960; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Order Gonorynchiformes
Family Chanidae — Milkfishes
Chanos chanos (Forsskäl, 1775). Milkfish. To 1.8 m (70.9 in) TL (Whitehead in Fischer et al. 1995). Pacific and
Indian oceans; San Pedro, southern California (Duffy and Bernard 1985) to Callao, Peru (Chirichigno
and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Juveniles are estuarine, adults
marine (Randall et al. 1990).
Order Cypriniformes
Family Cyprinidae — Carps and Minnows
Cyprinids are primarily freshwater fishes. They only occasionally stray into estuaries.
**Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758. Common Carp. To 122 cm (48 in) TL (Page and Burr 1991). Circumglobal
in fresh water; occasionally off British Columbia and in bays such as San Francisco (Eschmeyer and
Herald 1983).
Mylocheilus caurinus (Richardson 1836). Peamouth. To 35.9 cm (14.1 in) TL (Wydoski and Whitney 1979).
British Columbia marine waters (Wydoski and Whitney 1979) and Columbia River estuary (Bottom
and Jones 1990).
Pogonichthys macrolepidotus (Ayres, 1854). Splittail. To 44 cm (17.5 in) TL (Page and Burr 1991). Primarily
freshwater habitat, but tolerates brackish conditions. May be found in Suisan and San Pablo bays and
Carquinez Straits, northern California. Also Central Valley Delta region and Sacramento River, California
(Moyle 1976).
Order Siluriformes
Family Ariidae — Sea Catfishes
Ariopsis guatemalensis (Günther, 1864). Widehead Sea Catfish. To 45 cm (17.7 in) TL. Bahia Magdalena,
southern Baja California (Galván-Magaña et al. 2000) and central Mexico to Costa Rica (Robertson
and Allen 2002). At depths of 0–20 m (66 ft; Robertson and Allen 2002). Originally and still sometimes
classified in Arius, also recently in Hexanematichthys.
Ariopsis planiceps (Steindachner, 1877). Flathead Sea Catfish. To 60 cm (23.6 in) TL (De La Cruz-Agüero et
al. 1997). Bahia Magdalena, southern Baja California (De La Cruz-Agüero et al. 1994) to Panama (Allen
and Robertson 1994). Shallow water. Originally and still sometimes classified in Arius, also recently in
Notarius.
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