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 Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848 . Slender Snipe Eel . To about 2 m ( 78.7 in ) TL ( Roberts et al. 2015 ). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002 ) and Russian north-western Pacific ( Orlov and Tokranov 2019 ); Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to southern Chile ( 52°S ) (Sielfeld and Vargas 1996), including Gulf of California (Charter in Moser 1996 ). Primarily mesopelagic and bathypelagic, sometimes over continental shelf; depth: surface to 4,337 m ( 14,225 ft ) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Charter in Moser 1996 ).