Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Argyropelecus aculeatus Valenciennes, 1850 . Lovely Hatchetfish . To 8.3 cm ( 3.3 in ) SL ( Collette and Klein-MacPhee 2002 ). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to northern Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002 ); central California ( 34°53.6’N , 121°30.2’W ) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to at least Ecuador ( 01°59’N , 84°15’W ) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Depth: 160–2,250 m ( 548–7,380 ft ) (min.: Lima et al. 2011 ; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). A record of 100 m in Froese and Pauly (2019) , attributed to Shinohara et al. (1996) , appears to be in error as Shinohara et al. lists 785 m as the shallowest catch. Deeper records (e.g., 4,100 m ( 13,448 ft ) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); 5,178 m ( 16,984 ft ) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California)) may represent fish caught by trawls based on the maximum depth fished and may represent a catch shallower than the maximum depth.