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Conocara salmoneum (Gill & Townsend, 1897). Deepsea Slickhead. To at least 73 cm (28.7 in) SL (Markle
and Quéro in Whitehead et al. 1984). Atlantic and Pacific; two records from the Pacific (Mecklenburg et
al. 2002): near Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea (Gill and Townsend 1897) and Santa Catalina Island, southern
California (Gilbert 1915). Benthopelagic, at depths of about 2,400–4,200 m (7,874–13,779 ft; Markle
and Quéro in Whitehead et al. 1984).
Mirorictus taningi Parr, 1947. Striped Tubeshoulder. To 12.4 cm (5 in) SL or more. Pacific and Indian
oceans; central California to Peru, including Gulf of California. All in Matsui and Rosenblatt (1987).
Narcetes stomias (Gilbert, 1890). To 57.5 cm (22.6 in) SL (Markle and Sazonov in Quéro et al. 1990).
Circumglobal; Washington (Matarese et al. 1989) to Gulf of Panama (Sazonov 1998). At depths of
1,200–2,334 m (3,936–7,656 ft) (min.: Sazonov and Markle in Gon and Heemstra 1990; max.: Sazonov
1998) and perhaps to 3,200 m (10,499 ft; Sazonov 1998).
Photostylus pycnopterus Beebe, 1933. Beaded Slickhead. To 13.0 cm (5.1 in) SL (Tsukamoto et al. 1992).
(We assume that in the range of “39.9-13.0 mm SL” given by Tsukomoto et al. for total specimens
examined, the 13.0 mm is a misprint for 130 mm = 13.0 cm.) Circumglobal; Japan (Tsukamoto et al.
1992); northern Baja California (32°36'N, 118°05'W; Wisner 1967). At depths of 701–2,868 m (2,299–
9,407 ft; Nakamura and Okamura in Okamura et al. 1995).
*Rouleina attrita (Vaillant, 1888). Softskin Slickhead. To 38 cm (15.0 in) SL (Markle and Quéro in Whitehead
et al. 1984). Circumglobal in temperate to tropical waters; Sea of Okhotsk, North Pacific Ocean east of
Taiwan and Honshu to well south of Near Islands, Aleutian Islands; one record from western Bering Sea
over Shirshov Ridge (Mecklenburg et al. [2002], after Sazonov et al. [1993] and others). Benthopelagic
at depths of 585–2,102 m (1,919–6,893 ft) (min.: Sazonov and Williams 2001; max.: Nakamura and
Okamura in Okamura et al. 1995).
Talismania bifurcata (Parr, 1951). Threadfin Slickhead. To 27.7 cm (11.1 in) SL (Kong and Melendez 1991).
British Columbia (Matarese et al. 1989) to Chile (29°S; Kong and Melendez 1991). At 473–1,491 m
(1,552–4,892 ft) (min.: Lauth 2001; max.: SIO 53-235).
Family Leptochilichthyidae — Leptochilichthyids
Leptochilichthys agassizi Garman, 1899. Paperjaw. To 30.8 cm (12.1 in) TL (Markle and Quéro in Whitehead
et al. 1984). Circumglobal (Sazonov 1995); Oregon (Matarese et al. 1989) to Chile at 20°19'S, 71°15'W
(SIO 72-180). Bathypelagic, at 2,000–3,100 m (6,560–10,168 ft; Markle and Quéro in Smith and
Heemstra 1986). Sazonov (1995) places this species in the Alepocephalidae.
Family Platytroctidae — Tubeshoulders
Holtbyrnia innesi (Fowler, 1934). Lanternjaw Tubeshoulder. To 24 cm (9.4 in) SL (Quéro et al. in Quéro
et al. 1990). Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans; South China Sea and Celebes Sea to Okhotsk Sea,
Pacific off Kuril Islands and southern Kamchatka, central North Pacific, Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et
al. 2002), British Columbia (Gillespie 1993), and Peru (Matsui and Rosenblatt 1987). Mesopelagic and
bathypelagic to benthopelagic, at depths of about 100–1,500 m (328–4,921 ft; Quéro et al. in Quéro et al.
1990); records from depths less than 200 m are rare. Additional citations in Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
Holtbyrnia latifrons Sazonov, 1976. Streaklight Tubeshoulder or Teardrop Tubeshoulder. To 25 cm (9.8 in)
SL (Sazonov et al. 1993). Western Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile (Matsui
and Rosenblatt 1987). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic, at depths of 225–1,400 m (743–4,620 ft) (min.:
LACM 38887.014; max.: Sazonov et al. 1993). Also recorded from eastern Pacific as H. macrops (citations
in Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
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