Glossaire géographique
sub-Antarct. (S Tasmania), E South Africa, off E Tristan da Cunha, G. of Guinea, Canary Islands, Brazil, Sargasso Sea, off Bermuda (Station "S"), off SW Ireland, off E Scotland, Greenland, Faroe Is., W Medit. (Ligurian Sea
in Mazzocchi & Di Capua, 2010), Minicoy Is., Indian, Indonesia-Malaysia, Philippines, China Seas (East China Sea), Taiwan (N: Mienhua Canyon), Japan (off Honshu), W Pacif. (equatorial), Pacif. tropical central & E (N-S), off British Columbia, California, San Diego, off Galapagos (E & W)
Type locality: 99°-108°W, 0°-3°S.
For Park (2000, p.122), besides its type locality in the equatorial Pacific and in the eastern and central equatorial waters of the Pacific between 17°50' S and 10°05' N, and between 164° 14' W and 110°18' W, the species has been recorded from off San Diego (Esterly, 1905), the Malay Archipelago (A. Scott, 1909), the Indian Ocean (Sewell, 1932), the Gulf of Guinea (Vervoort, 1965), and the South Atlantic (Wolfenden, 1911). However, none of these records outside the type locality is accompanied by reliable species descriptions, and their validity therefore cannot be confirmed.