Careproctus abbreviatus Burke, 1930 .

Short Snailfish. To 10 cm (3.9 in) TL.Northern Sea of Okhotsk (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); Rat Island (51°34’N, 178°20’W), western Aleutian Islands (Maslenikov et al. 2013), and eastern North Pacific south of Alaska Peninsula (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: 325–1,143 m (1,066 –3,749 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Chernova et al. (2004) consider the Sea of Okhotsk record questionable.