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 Ablennes hians (Valenciennes, 1846) . Barred Needlefish or Flat Needlefish . To 122 cm ( 48 in ) TL ( Roul et al. 2018 ). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002 ); central Baja California (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995 ) to northern Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998 ) and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997 ). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters ( Fricke et al. 2011 ); depth: typically at surface, to 12 m ( 39 ft ) ( Godínez-Domínguez et al. 2000 ).