Ariosoma gilberti (Ogilby, 1898) .

Gilbert’s Conger or Sharpnose Conger. To at least 27 cm (10.6 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); Bahía Asuncion (27°06’N, 114°11’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Peru (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), including Gulf of California (Smith in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface to 100 m (3–328 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Aburto-Oropeza et al. 2011). McCosker and Rosenblatt (2010) consider A. gilberti to be limited to Islas Galápagos and Panama and A. hemiaspidus (Wade, 1946) to be the Mexican species.