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 Desmodema lorum Rosenblatt & Butler, 1977 . Whiptail Ribbonfish . To 110 cm ( 43.3 in ) SL ( Rosenblatt and Butler 1977 ) or 114 cm ( 44.9 in ) TL ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983 ). Temperate waters of North Pacific Ocean; Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984 ); southern Kuril Islands ( Parin et al. 1995 ); southern Oregon ( 44°26’N , 155°05’W ) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) to Peru ( Nakaya et al. 2009 ), including Gulf of California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Epipelagic (Charter and Moser in Moser 1996 ) to mesopelagic ( Rosenblatt and Butler 1977 ); depth: adults from a minimum of at least 30 to at least 1,162 m (98–3,811) (min.: Martin 2015 ; max: NWFSC-FRAM).