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