
Distribution area
Regional overview, not a precise species range.
Cosmopolitan. Western Atlantic: Florida (USA), Martinique, Venezuela (Ref. 51183 ), and Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Madeira to Scandinavia (Ref. 4711 ); Dakar, Senegambie, and Sierra Leone (Ref. 6952 ); South Africa. Eastern Pacific: central California, USA to Chile; rare north of Mexico (Ref. 2850 ). Indian Ocean: Madagascar (Ref. 33390 ), Mauritius (Ref. 58078 ), Reunion (Ref. 53568 ), Iran (Ref. 86583 ), Australia (49596). West Pacific: Japan (Ref. 559 ), China (Ref. 57879 ), Taiwan (Ref. 12711 ), New Zealand (Ref. 5755 ).