Macroramphosus scolopax (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 104

Macroramphosus scolopax (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Longnosed Snipefish, Longspine Snipefish, or Slender Snipefish. To 22.8 cm (9 in) TL ( Borges 2001). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002); between Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz Islands, southern California (Mary Nishimoto, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Chile ( Pequeño 1989). Depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), also seen near bottom (Parin and Pakhorukov 2003) to 600 m (1,968 ft) (Fritzsche and Thiesfeld in Carpenter and Niem 1999). Also recently as Macroramphosus gracilis (Lowe, 1839) . Mundy (2005) presents arguments for and against synonymizing M. scolopax with M. gracilis .