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 Careproctus gilberti Burke, 1912 . Smalldisk Snailfish . To 12.7 cm ( 5 in ) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Western Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) and eastern Bering Sea ( Hoff and Britt 2003 ) to central California north of Point Conception at about 35°10’N off Morro Bay ( Townsend and Nichols 1925 ), and perhaps to southern California ( 33°44.9’N , 120°12’W ) (Daniel Pondella, pers. comm. to M.L.). Depth: 55–2,040 m ( 180– 6,691 ft ) (min.: Personal communication: University of Washington , Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington ; confirmed by Katherine Maslenikov; max.: Drazen et al. 2015 ). The southern limit is the collection locality for the type specimen of Liparis osborni Townsend & Nichols, 1925 , a junior synonym of C. gilberti (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) .