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 Phtheirichthys lineatus (Menzies, 1791) . Slender Suckerfish . To 76 cm ( 29.9 in ) TL ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983 ). Circumglobal; southern California ( Miller and Lea 1972 ) to northern Peru ( Robertson and Allen 2015 ), including Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2002 ), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997 ). Oceanic, pelagic; depth: surface to 100 m ( 328 ft ) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Robertson and Allen 2008 ).