Spirinchus starksi (Fisk, 1913). Night Smelt. To 23 cm (9 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Shelikof Bay, southeastern Gulf of Alaska (McAllister 1963, Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to southern California (34°N) (Bradburn et al. 2011). Depth: intertidal, surface to 128 m (422 ft) (Coad 1995); a record from 594 m (1,948 ft) (Bradburn et al. 2011) was from a trawl survey and may represent a midwater capture or a fish left in the net from a shallower tow.

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008