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 Notacanthus chemnitzii Bloch, 1788 . Snubnosed Spiny Eel . To 135 cm ( 54 in ) TL ( Mecklenburg et al. 2018 ). Probably circumglobal; Greenland (Okamura and Takahashi in Okamura et al. 1995 ); western Pacific Ocean off Japan (Yabe in Amaoka et al. 1983 ); Sea of Okhotsk ( Orlov 1998 ); northern Bering Sea ( 59°22’N , 178°28’W ) ( Maslenikov et al. 2013 ) to Chile ( Pequeño 1989 ). Benthopelagic; depth: 126–3,285 m ( 413–10,775 ft ) (min.: Orlov and Tokranov 2019 ; max.: Yabe in Amaoka et al. 1983 ); usually taken at the greater depths (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Either a single species with some intraspecific variation ( Mecklenburg et al. 2018 ) or a species complex ( Robertson et al. 2017 ).