Nemichthys larseni Nielsen & Smith, 1978 .

Pale Snipe Eel. To about 161 cm (63.4 in) TL (Kamikawa 2017). Eastern North Pacific from between Springfield and Warwick Seamounts (47°56’N, 131°26’W) (Hanke et al. 2014) to central Mexico, including Gulf of California, to Hawai’i (Nielsen and Smith 1978). Mostly mesopelagic; depth: at least as shallow as 25 m to 2,439 m (82–8,000 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Oregon State University Fish Collection, Corvallis, Oregon; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).