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 Pentaceros wheeleri ( Hardy, 1983 ) . North Pacific Armorhead or Pelagic Armorhead. To 53 cm ( 21 in ) TL ( Hart 1973 ). Japan to Hawai’i ( Hardy 1983 ), and Gulf of Alaska as far west as south of eastern Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and as far north as Resurrection Bay (Catherine W. Mecklenburg, unpubl. data), to central California ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983 ). Reported in error from Bering Sea (see discussion in Mecklenburg et al. (2002:658–659)). Pelagic and benthic; depth: surface to 1,060 m ( 3,478 ft ) (Parin and Pakhorukov 2003). Includes North Pacific records of Pentaceros richardsoni Smith, 1844 , and Pseudopentaceros richardsoni (Smith, 1844) . see synonymy in Humphreys et al. (1989) . Previously reported from the Indian Ocean, but those records represent a different species; pelagic and benthic records of P. wheeleri were mapped by Boehlert and Sasaki (1988) .