Avocettina bowersii Garman, 1899. Smalleye Snipe Eel. To 67.5 cm (26.8 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Eastern and central Pacific; Patton Seamount, Gulf of Alaska (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington); San Francisco, northern California (Charter in Moser 1996) to northern Chile (19°44’S) (Kong and Meléndez 1991). Pelagic; depth: 0–4,000 m (13,120 ft) (Robertson et al. 2017).

Avocettina infans (Günther, 1878). Close-spine Snipe Eel or Blackline Snipe Eel. To 80 cm (31.5 in) TL (Smith and Nielsen 1989). Circumglobal, but almost exclusively in Northern Hemisphere; Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002) and Russian North-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); Commander and Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) and northern Bering Sea as far north as 59°22’N, 178°28’W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to Chile (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), including Gulf of California (Charter in Moser 1996). Pelagic, rarely over continental shelf; depth: surface to 4,580 m (15,022 ft) (min.: Charter in Moser 1996; max.: Fricke et al. 2019).

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).

Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848. Slender Snipe Eel. To about 2 m (78.7 in) TL (Roberts et al. 2015). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002) and Russian north-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to southern Chile (52°S) (Sielfeld and Vargas 1996), including Gulf of California (Charter in Moser 1996). Primarily mesopelagic and bathypelagic, sometimes over continental shelf; depth: surface to 4,337 m (14,225 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Charter in Moser 1996).