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 Trachipterus fukuzakii Fitch, 1964 . Tapertail Ribbonfish . To 165 cm ( 65 in ) TL ( Kamikawa 2017 ). Just north of San Francisco, northern California ( Kamikawa 2017 ) to Chile ( Miller and Lea 1972 ), including Gulf of California ( Galván-Magaña et al. 1996 ). Epipelagic and mesopelagic ( Miller and Lea 1972 ); depth: as shallow as 5 m ( 16 ft ) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).