Melamphaes suborbitalis (Gill, 1883) .

To 12 cm (4.7) SL (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984). Circumglobal (Kotlyar 1999); western Pacific Ocean north to Sea of Okhotsk (Parin and Kotlyar 1998); as far northward as near the U.S. -Mexican Border (31°15’N, 119°59’W) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to at least southeast of Cabo San Lucas (22°25’N, 108°30’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Depth: 100–3,200 m (328–10,496 ft) (Kotlyar 1999).