
Distribution area
Regional overview, not a precise species range.
Circumglobal, excluding the northeast Pacific and Mediterranean Sea (Ref. 9833 ). Western Atlantic: Gulf of Maine to the Gulf of Mexico (Ref. 6743 ). Eastern Atlantic: off southwestern Europe and the Canary Islands (Ref. 7413 ) to South Africa (Ref. 4179 ). Indo-Pacific: East Africa (including Saya de Malha Bank, Ref. 33390 ) to Japan, Hawaii, 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 ). Eastern Pacific: Chile (Ref. 27363 ).