Zameus squamulosus (Günther, 1877) .

Velvet Dogfish. To 115 cm (45.3 in) TL (Santos et al. 2020). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Ebert et al. 2013); one record from southern California (33°43’N, 118°32’W) (Daniel Kamikawa, pers. comm. to M.L.); Peru and Chile (Ebert 2016). Depth: surface to 1,511 m (4,956 ft) (min.: Compagno in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016; max.: Weigman 2016), perhaps to about 2,000 m (6,560 ft), but without documentation (Roberts et al. 2015).