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 Lophotus capellei Temminck & Schlegel, 1845 . North Pacific Crestfish . To at least 100 cm ( 39.4 in ) SL ( Craig et al. 2004 ). Possibly circumglobal ( Fricke et al. 2020 ); well offshore, to 610 km ( 379 mi ) off Point Arena, northern California and near coast to San Diego, southern California ( Craig et al. 2004 ). Depth: surface ( Fitch and Lavenberg 1968 ), intertidal to at least 1,100 m ( 3,608 ft ) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California ; max: Fitch and Lavenberg 1968 ) and probably to greater depths. Previously regarded as belonging to the nearly worldwide species Lophotus lacepede , the North Pacific Ocean form was shown to be a different species ( Craig et al. 2004 ).