simillimus, Poronotus Ayres [W. O.] 1860:84, Fig. 23 [Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1) v. 2 (1858-1862); ref. 158] San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Syntypes: (3 or 4, lost). Any types at CAS would have been destroyed in 1906. •Valid as Stromateus simillimus (Ayres 1860) -- (Herrera 1896:48 [ref. 39336]). •Valid as Palometa simillima (Ayres 1860) -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:36 [ref. 39147]). •Valid as Peprilus simillimus (Ayres 1860) -- (Haedrich 1967:107 [ref. 5357], Horn 1970:185 [ref. 7749], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:280 [ref. 9277], Matarese et al. 1989:562 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:183 [ref. 14674], Haedrich & Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995:1624 [ref. 22830], De la Cruz-Agüero & Cota-Gómez 1998:357 [ref. 23520], Fuller et al. 1999:467 [ref. 25838], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:814 [ref. 25968], Nelson et al. 2004:178 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:170 [ref. 37547], Page et al. 2013:183 [ref. 32708], Pietsch & Orr 2015:67 [ref. 34694], Marceniuk et al. 2016:314 [ref. 34358], Kells et al. 2016:322 [ref. 35888], Burton & Lea 2019:94 [ref. 37205], Love et al. 2021:215 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:115 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Peprilus simillimus (Ayres 1860). Stromateidae. Distribution: Northeastern Pacific: British Columbia (Canada) south to Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico), including Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: marine.