Common names: corvina (English), weakfish (English), corvina (Espanol)
 
Isopisthus remifer Jordan & Gilbert, 1882


Bigeye corvina,     Silver weakfish



Body elongate, very compressed; eye large; mouth oblique, lower jaw strongly projecting; chin without barbells and pores; tip of top jaw with a pair of large, curved canine teeth; 7-10 lower gill rakers; preopercle weakly serrated; dorsal fin divided in two well separated parts, VII-IX+I-II, 21-23; anal fin with II short spines, base long, about equal to that of base of soft dorsal, 17-19 soft rays; pectoral fins long, reaching beyond tips of depressed pelvic fins; caudal fin bluntly pointed to straight; scales smooth; soft dorsal and anal fins entirely scaled; pored lateral-line scales 52-57.

Silver, bluish grey on upper back; tip of lower jaw and opercular lining black; pectoral axil dark; fins pale to yellowish.


Size: to 35 cm.

Inhabits coastal waters and lower parts of estuaries.

Depth: 4-50 m.

Southern Baja California, and the eastern Gulf of California to Chile.