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 Thaumatichthys axeli (Bruun, 1953) . To 36.5 cm ( 14.4 in ) SL. Two known specimens: one from Patton escarpment, well off southern California ; the other from 9°23’N , 87°32’W . Both specimens from deep water; the southern California fish was taken in an otter trawl at 3,578–3,671 m ( 11,736–12,041 ft ), the second fish in a herring otter trawl at 3,570 m ( 11,710 ft ). All in Bertelsen and Struhsaker (1977) .