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 Polyacanthonotus challengeri (Vaillant, 1888) . Longnose Tapirfish . To about 60 cm ( 23.6 in ) TL (Gon in Gon and Heemstra 1990 ). Circumglobal, predominantly antitropical, on the continental rise; western Pacific Ocean north off northern Sea of Japan off Hokkaido (Yabe in Amaoka et al. 1983 ) and western North Pacific off southern Honshu ( Crabtree et al. 1985 ) to northern Bering Sea ( 60°10’N , 179°41’W ) ( Maslenikov et al. 2013 ) to Cape Falcon, Oregon ( Stein and Butler 1971 ). Benthopelagic; depth: 700–3,753 m ( 2,296 –12,313 ft ) (min.: Smith in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016 ; max.: Sulak et al. 1984 ).