Paraliparis holomelas Gilbert, 1896. Ebony Snailfish. To 10 cm (3.9 in) TL (Gilbert 1896). Sea of Okhotsk (Schmidt 1950); Pacific Ocean off northern Kuril Islands and south-eastern Kamchatka (Love et al. 2005); south-eastern Bering Sea to western and central Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: 55–2,972 m (180–10,991 ft) (min.: Busby and Cartwright 2006; max.: Gilbert 1896); reported to 3,356 m (11,008 ft) (Orlov and Tokranov 2019) but without documentation. The specimen reported by Schmidt (1950) from the Sea of Okhotsk at 3,350 m is not this species (Love et al. 2005).