Alepisaurus ferox Lowe, 1833 .

Longnose Lancetfish. To about 231 cm (90.9 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984), and Sea of Okhotsk, to Bering Sea as far northward as 58°21’N, 175°19’W (Maslenikov et al. 2013), and Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Epipelagic to bathypelagic; depth: near surface to 1,830 m (6,004 ft); primarily oceanic but often found close to shore (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).