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 Sigmops gracilis (Günther, 1878) . Slender Fangjaw . To 14.6 cm ( 6 in ) SL ( Sinclair and Stabeno 2002 ).; Central and northern Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002 ); eastern Bering Sea ( 57°45’N , 173°56’W ) ( Maslenikov et al. 2013 ) and eastern North Pacific Ocean as far south as northern California ( 40°54’N , 124°29’W ) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington); confirmed by Katherine Maslenikov). Primarily mesopelagic; depth: near surface to 4,389 m ( 14,399 ft ) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).