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 Argyropelecus sladeni Regan, 1908 . Hatchetfish or Silvery Hatchetfish. To 6.7 cm ( 2.6 in ) SL (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984 ). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984 ); western Bering Sea ( Balanov 1992 ); British Columbia ( Gillespie 1993 ) to Chile ( Baird 1971 ). The distribution of this species is perhaps antitropical ( Baird 1971 ). Depth: 0–1,200 m ( 3,936 ft ) ( Roberts et al. 2015 ). A record in the University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection lists a capture of this species in a midwater trawl fished at greater than 3,000 m ( 9,840 ft ). However, the fish may have entered the trawl at any depth during deployment or retrieval.