Avocettina infans (Günther, 1878)

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 : 37

Avocettina infans (Günther, 1878) .

Close-spine Snipe Eel or Blackline Snipe Eel. To 80 cm (31.5 in) TL ( Smith and Nielsen 1989). Circumglobal, but almost exclusively in Northern Hemisphere; Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002) and Russian North-western Pacific ( Orlov and Tokranov 2019); Commander and Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) and northern Bering Sea as far north as 59°22’N, 178°28’W) ( Maslenikov et al. 2013) to Chile (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), including Gulf of California (Charter in Moser 1996). Pelagic, rarely over continental shelf; depth: surface to 4,580 m (15,022 ft) (min.: Charter in Moser 1996; max.: Fricke et al. 2019).