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Stemonosudis macrura (Ege, 1933). Probably to 25 cm (9.8 in) SL (Post in Smith and Heemstra 1986).
Pacific and Indian oceans; Point Conception, central California to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Epipelagic
and mesopelagic (Ambrose in Moser 1996).
Sudis atrox Rofen, 1963. To 7.5 cm (3 in) SL (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002). Atlantic and Pacific; from at least
southern California (32°N) to Chile (Ambrose in Moser 1996). Primarily mesopelagic to bathypelagic,
recorded from depths of 30–2,250 m (98–7,382 ft; Moore et al. 2003).
Family Anotopteridae — Daggertooths
Anotopterus nikparini Kukuev, 1998. Daggertooth or North Pacific Daggertooth. To 146 cm (57.5 in) TL
(Miller and Lea 1972). North Pacific; south of Japan to southern Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska to
south of Baja California (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). An Anotopterus reported from the Gulf of California
(Castro-Aguirre 1991) is likely this species. Primarily epipelagic and mesopelagic, recorded near surface
(at night) to 2,750 m (9,022 ft; Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Includes North Pacific records of Anotopterus
pharao.
Family Alepisauridae — Lancetfishes
Alepisaurus ferox Lowe, 1833. Longnose Lancetfish. To about 231 cm (90.9 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Atlantic and Pacific; Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984) and Sea of Okhotsk to southern Bering Sea and
Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Epipelagic to bathypelagic, recorded
near surface to 1,830 m (6,004 ft); primarily oceanic but often found close to shore (Mecklenburg et al.
2002).
Family Evermannellidae — Sabertooth Fishes
Evermannella ahlstromi Johnson & Glodek, 1975. To 7 cm (2.8 in) SL. Northern Baja California to equatorial
Pacific and off Peru. Mesopelagic. All in Johnson (1982).
Evermannella indica Brauer, 1906. To 12.7 cm (5 in) SL (Johnson in Quéro et al. 1990). Reported as
circumglobal, but may not live in Atlantic Ocean, where it is replaced by Evermannella melanoderma
(Swinney 1994). Well off southern and northern Baja California (Johnson 1982). At depths of 50–800 m
(164–2,624 ft) (min.: McEachran and Fechhelm 1998; max.: Ambrose in Moser 1996).
Family Giganturidae — Telescopefishes
Gigantura indica Brauer, 1901. Pacific Telescopefish. To 20 cm (8 in) TL (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968).
Southern California, northern Baja California, north of Hawaii, South Pacific (Fitch and Lavenberg
1968). At depths of 17–3,659 m (56–12,000 ft) (min.: Johnson and Bertelsen 1991; max.: Fitch and
Lavenberg 1968). Bathyleptus lisae Walters, 1961, is a junior synonym.
Family Notosudidae — Paperbones or Waryfishes
Ahliesaurus brevis Bertelsen, Krefft, & Marshall, 1976. To 28 cm (11.0 in) SL (McEachran and Fechhelm
1998). Pacific and Indian oceans; Japan and southern Kuril Islands (Parin et al. 1995); central Baja
California southward (Watson and Sandknop in Moser 1996). Deep mesopelagic to bathypelagic (Krefft
in Whitehead et al. 1984) to at least 1,000 m (3,280 ft; Nakabo in Nakabo 2002).
Scopelosaurus harryi (Mead, 1953). Scaly Paperbone or Scaly Waryfish. To 32 cm (12.6 in) SL (Fujii in
Masuda et al. 1984). Okhotsk Sea (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984), Bering Sea (Bertelsen et al. 1976), and
Pacific Ocean north of Japan and southern Baja California (20°N; Sazonov 1998). Primarily mesopelagic,
recorded range 20–1,310 m (66–4,298 ft; Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Notosudis adleri Fedorov, 1967, is
treated as a junior synonym of S. harryi.
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