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 Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan , 1898 . Goblin Shark . Maximum measured size is 4.10 m ( 13.45 ft ) TL ( Kukuev 1982 ); however, a photo of a specimen from the Gulf of Mexico was estimated at 5.40–6.17 m ( 17.12–20.24 ft ) ( Parsons et al. 2002 ). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Honshu, Japan (Aonuma and Yoshino in Nakabo 2002 ); San Clemente Island, southern California ( Ugoretz and Seigel 1999 ). Depth: surface to 1,300 m ( 4,264 ft ) ( Ebert et al. 2013 ).