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 Bathymaster signatus Cope, 1873 . Searcher . To 38 cm ( 15 in ) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Pacific coast of Hokkaido , Japan ( Shinohara et al. 1992 ), Sea of Okhotsk, and Kuril Islands to western Bering Sea and Commander Islands, and Bering Sea as far northward as Saint Matthew Island ( 61°N , 178°31’W ), Alaska ( Mecklenburg et al. 2011 ), southeast from Navarin Canyon, and throughout Aleutian Islands to Washington (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Records as far south as northern British Columbia have good documentation, but those from Washington are uncertain ( Stevenson and Matarese 2005 ). Records from Puget Sound and at the mouth of the Strait of Juan de Fuca are in error ( Pietsch and Orr 2019 ). Benthic; depth: adults at 3–380 m ( 10–1,247 ft ) (min.: Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; max.: Fedorov 1973 ); juveniles often collected at surface. Reported to 825 m ( 2,707 ft ) ( Allen and Smith 1988 ), but the fish may not have entered the net at or near the maximum depth of the tow.