
Distribution area
Regional overview, not a precise species range.
Worldwide in temperate and tropical latitudes, except the eastern Pacific. Eastern Atlantic: Greenland, Iceland, and Norway to Western Sahara and South Africa, including western Mediterranean. Western Atlantic: south to Brazil. Also found in Argentine (Ref. 2806 ). Indo-Pacific: East Africa (including the Madascar Ridge and Saya de Malha Bank, Ref. 33390 ) to Japan, Australia, and New Zealand (Ref. 5755 ). The limited number of records in the western Pacific is doubtless the result of limited fishing effort below 200 m (Ref. 9833 ).