Pogonichthys macrolepidotus (Ayres 1854)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Cypriniformes
- family
- Cyprinidae
- genus
- Pogonichthys
- species
- Pogonichthys macrolepidotus
description
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 and also Central Valley Delta region and Sacramento River, California (Moyle 1976).