Gigantactis gargantua Bertelsen, Pietsch, & Lavenberg, 1981 .

To 40.8 cm (16.1 in) SL (Bertelsen et al. 1981). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to northern Honshu, Japan (Amaoka in Amaoka et al. 1983); Hawai’i; and southern California (Bertelsen et al. 1981), also offshore of Morro Bay, central California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). One probable record off northern Oregon (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Mesopelagic to bathypelagic; depth: taken in open nets fished to maximum depths of 500–1,535 m (1,640 –5,036 ft) (min.: Bertelsen et al. 1981; max.: Amaoka in Amaoka et al. 1983).