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 cypselurus ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1898) . Falcate Snailfish or Forktail Snailfish. To 37.4 cm ( 14.7 in (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). A record of 54 cm ( 21.3 in ) SL ( Kamikawa 2017 ) is without documentation and is likely in error (James Orr). Pacific Ocean off Honshu, Japan to Kuril Islands and Sea of Okhotsk ( Kido 1988 ) to Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), Gulf of Alaska (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) to northern California ( 35°26.5’N , 121°44.2’W ) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington); at least several captures reported from further south (e.g., central California ( 34°44’N ), Weinberg et al. 2002 ; southern California ( 32°56’N ), NWFSC-FRAM), but without voucher specimens. Depth: 35–1,993 m ( 115–6,539 ft ) (min.: Orlov and Tokranov 2011 ; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002).