Polyacanthonotus challengeri (Vaillant, 1888)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 32

Polyacanthonotus challengeri (Vaillant, 1888) .

Longnose Tapirfish. To about 60 cm (23.6 in) TL (Gon in Gon and Heemstra 1990). Circumglobal, predominantly antitropical, on the continental rise; western Pacific Ocean north off northern Sea of Japan off Hokkaido (Yabe in Amaoka et al. 1983) and western North Pacific off southern Honshu ( Crabtree et al. 1985) to northern Bering Sea (60°10’N, 179°41’W) ( Maslenikov et al. 2013) to Cape Falcon, Oregon ( Stein and Butler 1971). Benthopelagic; depth: 700–3,753 m (2,296 –12,313 ft) (min.: Smith in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016; max.: Sulak et al. 1984).