Hypomesus nipponensis McAllister 1963

** Hypomesus nipponensis McAllister, 1963. Wakasagi. To 19.5 cm (7.8 in) SL (Saruwatari et al. 1997). Widespread in Japan, Sakhalin Island and environs (Dyldin and Orlov 2016b); introduced to California lakes in 1959 (Saruwatari et al. 1997), now in Sacramento���San Joaquin Estuary (Aasen et al. 1998). Primarily a brackish-water species; found also in fresh water, commonly from transplants (Saruwatari et al. 1997); depth: shallow waters to 50 m (164 ft) (Kim and Kim 2019).
Published as part of 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, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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