Spectrunculus grandis (Günther, 1877).

Giant Cusk-eel. To 138 cm (54.3 in) TL (Abe and Hiramoto 1984). Circumglobal (Nielsen and Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Machida et al. 1987), and Russian north-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); northern Gulf of Alaska to central California (34°50’N, 123°00’W) (Priede et al. 2019), and to northern Chile (23°29’S) (Kong et al. 1988), including Gulf of California. Benthopelagic at bathyal and abyssal depths (Nielsen and Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999); depth: voucher specimens from depths of about 800–4,332 m (2,625 –14,209 ft) (min.: Nielsen and Hureau 1980; max.: Linley et al. 2017), and photographs of individuals just above the bottom as deep as 6,273 m (20,580 ft) (Machida et al. 1987).