Brachyistius frenatus Gill, 1862

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 : 172

Brachyistius frenatus Gill, 1862 .

Kelp Perch or Kelp Surfperch. To 21.6 cm (8.5 in) TL ( Miller and Lea 1972). Near Sitka, south-eastern Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Bahía Tortugas, central Baja California, including Isla Guadalupe ( Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: intertidal to 76 m (249 ft) (min.: Hubbs and Hubbs 1954; max.: M.L., unpubl. data); primarily at middepths among columns of giant kelp (particularly Macrocystis ) ( Hubbs and Hubbs 1954). Brachyistius aletes Tarp, 1952 is a synonym ( Longo et al. 2018).