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 Photonectes margarita (Goode & Bean, 1896) . Sooty Dragonfish . To 39.6 cm ( 15.6 in ) SL (Gibbs and Barnett in Quéro et al. 1990 ). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984 ); Off northern California ( 40°54’N ) (NWFSC-FRAM) to northern Baja California ( Berry and Perkins 1966 ) and Isla Guadalupe , central Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Depth: surface to 3,290 m ( 10,791 ft ) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Note: Photonectes intermedius Parr, 1927 , thought to be synonymous with P. margarita by some (i.e., Prokofiev 2019 ), may be a separate species and is found in California waters (Cynthia Klepadlo, pers. comm. to M.L.). Perhaps a species complex ( Prokofiev 2019 ).