Spectrunculus grandis (Günther, 1877)

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 : 84

Spectrunculus grandis (Günther, 1877) .

Giant Cusk-eel. To 138 cm (54.3 in) TL ( Abe and Hiramoto 1984). Circumglobal (Nielsen and Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan ( Machida et al. 1987), and Russian north-western Pacific ( Orlov and Tokranov 2019); northern Gulf of Alaska to central California (34°50’N, 123°00’W) ( Priede et al. 2019), and to northern Chile (23°29’S) ( Kong et al. 1988), including Gulf of California. Benthopelagic at bathyal and abyssal depths (Nielsen and Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999); depth: voucher specimens from depths of about 800–4,332 m (2,625 –14,209 ft) (min.: Nielsen and Hureau 1980; max.: Linley et al. 2017), and photographs of individuals just above the bottom as deep as 6,273 m (20,580 ft) ( Machida et al. 1987).