Centropomus nigrescens Günther, 1864

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Centropomus nigrescens Günther, 1864 .

Black Snook. To 117 cm (46 in) TL (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Paita, Peru ( Chirichigno 1974) , including lower Gulf of California (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters ( Fricke et al. 2020); depth: to 25 m (82 ft) ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Centropomus nigrescens Günther, 1864 , is an invalid name, as it is preoccupied by C. nigrescens Risso, 1810 , a species in the family Moronidae ( Eschmeyer 1998) .