Cubiceps paradoxus Butler, 1979. Longfin Cigarfish. To 128 cm (50.4 in) TL (Frable et al. 2020). Off Mauritania, eastern Atlantic (Kukuev and Gulyugin 2015); western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); Port Hueneme (Merit McCrea, pers. comm. to M.L.) and Palos Verdes, southern California (Butler 1979). Epipelagic and mesopelagic (Mundy 2005).