Lumpenus sagitta Wilimovsky, 1956. Snake Prickleback. To 50.8 cm (20 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Seas of Japan and Okhotsk; Pacific Ocean off Japan, to Commander Islands, and Aleutian Islands to at least Saint Matthew Island, and Norton Sound, northern Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2016), to Monterey Bay, central California (Jacobsen Stout et al. 2016). Reports from Chukchi Sea are uncertain (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 425 m (1,394 ft) (min.: Miller et al. 1980; max.: Allen and Smith 1988); almost always shallower than 200 m (656 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).