Acanthogobius flavimanus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 203

** 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).