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 Forcipiger flavissimus Jordan & McGregor, 1898 . Forcepsfish or Longnose Butterflyfish. To 22 cm ( 8.7 in ) TL ( Allen and Robertson 1994 ). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Ida in Masuda et al. 1984 ); Rocas Alijos, southern Baja California ( Gotshall 1996 ) and Cabo San Lucas and in Gulf of California ( Thomson et al. 1979 ) to Chile ( Pequeño 1989 ), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997 ) and other offshore islands ( Robertson and Allen 2002 ). Depth: 1–145 m ( 3–476 ft ) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002 ; max.: Ralston et al. 1986 ).