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Common Name: spotfin mojarra
Synonyms and Other Names: silver mojarra
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Miller and Lea (1972); Eschmeyer et al. (1983); Fischer et al. (1995a).
Size: 20 cm.
Native Range: Marine; Anaheim Bay in southern California to Peru (Miller and Lea
1972; Eschmeyer et al. 1983; Fischer et al. 1995a) in the Pacific; New
Jersey, Bermuda, and northern Gulf of Mexico to southeastern Brazil
(Ramirez-Hernández and Gonzales Pages 1976; Robins and Ray 1986) in the
Atlantic.
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Nonindigenous Occurrences: Introduced into Salton Sea, California, in 1950 and 1951 (Walker et al. 1961; Dill and Cordone 1997).
Means of Introduction: Intentionally stocked four times during 1950-1951. Two of those stockings contained only one fish; a third one contained less than 12. All stock was obtained from San Felipe, Mexico (Walker et al. 1961).
Status: The introduction failed to produce a viable population and the species is extirpated in the Salton Sea.
Impact of Introduction: Unknown.
Remarks: None.
Dill, W. A., and A. J. Cordone. 1997. History and status of introduced fishes in California, 1871--1996. Manuscript for Fish Bulletin of the California Department of Fish and Game 178.
Eschmeyer, W. N., E. S. Herald, and H. Hamann. 1983. A field guide to Pacific Coast fishes of North America. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA.
Fischer, W., F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K. E. Carpenter, V. H. Niem. 1995a. Guía FAO para la identificatión de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volumen II. Vertebrados - Parte 1. Vol. II: 647--1200. Roma, FAO.
Miller, D. J., and R. N. Lea. 1972. Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. Fish Bulletin of the California Department of Fish and Game 157:1--235.
Ramirez-Hernández, E. and A. Gonzales Pages. 1976. Catalogo de peces marinos Mexicanos. Mexico, D. F.: Secretaría de Industia y Comercio, Instituto Nacional de Pesca. 462 pp.
Robins, C. R., and G. C. Ray. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic Coast fishes of North America. The Peterson Guide Series, volume 32. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA.
Walker, B. W., R. R. Whitney, and G. W. Barlow. 1961. Fishes of the Salton Sea. Pages 77--92 in B. W. Walker, editor. The ecology of the Salton Sea, California, in relation to the sport fishery of California. Fish Bulletin of the California Department of Fish and Game 113.
Other Resources:
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Pam Fuller
Revision Date: 6/19/2000 Citation for this information:
Pam Fuller. 2009. Eucinostomus argenteus. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=705> Revision Date: 6/19/2000
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