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 Anotopterus nikparini Kukuev, 1998 . Daggertooth or North Pacific Daggertooth . To 146 cm ( 57.5 in ) TL ( Miller and Lea 1972 ). South of Japan to southern Bering Sea, and Gulf of Alaska, to south of Baja California (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). An Anotopterus reported from the Gulf of California ( Castro-Aguirre 1991 ) is likely this species. Primarily epipelagic and mesopelagic; depth: near surface (at night) to 2,750 m ( 9,022 ft ) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Includes North Pacific records of Anotopterus pharao . Also placed in the family Anotopteridae ( Fricke et al. 2020 ) .