The anomalously warm waters of the northeast Pacific 2014–2015 brought with it a variety of subtropical and tropical fish species previously unusual or absent from California waters (Bond et al., 2015; pers. comm. M. McCrea, pers. comm.; J. Shepherd). On 1 February 2015, Mr. Keichi Yamamoto speared a fish that we have identified as Selar crumenophthalmus (Bloch, 1793), the bigeye scad (Fig. 1). The fish was captured in the midwaters of a kelp bed (bottom depth 8 m) off Rancho Palos Verdes (33u489N, 118u249W), southern California. This is the first time this species has been reported from off California. The fish he speared was one of approximately 10 conspecifics that were swimming with a school of juvenile jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus (Ayres, 1855). This specimen is housed in the fish collection at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, LACM 58288-1. We identified this fish (22.4 cm fork length) through the following diagnostic characters: Two papillae on the bone margin at the rear of the gill chamber (the lower one larger than the upper); the presence of a large eye (eye width greater than snout length) with adipose eyelid covers; and dorsal, anal, and pectoral fin counts and gill raker counts (Table 1). Meristics from our specimen fall within the range reported by other studies. Hardened scutes were present in the posterior lateral line. No finlets were present. The fish color was olive on dorsum, with a golden stripe along flanks, and a silvery belly. There was a diffuse golden ring around the eye. Bigeye scad are normally circumtropical. In the western Pacific, they have been found as far northward as the Pacific coast of southern Japan (Nakabo, 2002) and Sea of Japan (Parin, 2003). Previous to this capture, the eastern Pacific range was from Lagunas Ojo de Liebre-Guerrero Negro, central Baja California (Galvan-Magana et al., 2000) to Cabo Blanco, Peru (Chirichigno, 1974), including the Gulf of California (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al., 1995), Islas Galapagos (Grove and Lavenberg, 1997), Isla de Malpelo, Isla de Coco, Isla Clipperton, and Islas Revillagigedo (Robertson and Allen, 2008). This is a pelagic species found from surface waters to depths of 170 m (558 ft) (Randall et al., 1990, Allen and Robertson, 1994). It reaches a maximum length of 70 cm (Kuiter and Tonozuka, 2001). Of particular interest is that Mr. Yamamoto first observed a similar number of what were likely the same species in the same location in November 2014, also mixed in with juvenile jack mackerel. In addition, Mr. Yamamoto continued to observe bigeye scad at this location to as late as early March 2015, at this time swimming with a school of juvenile Pacific barracuda (Sphyraena argentea Girard, 1852). These sightings suggest that at least some bigeye scad may remain within a relatively circumscribed area for lengthy periods.