Psenes pellucidus Lütken, 1880 .

Bluefin Driftfish. To 80 cm (31.5 in) TL (Haedrich in Whitehead et al. 1986). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002) and southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); Santa Catalina Island, southern California (Ahlstrom et al. 1976) to southern end of Baja California (Watson in Moser 1996), and about 5°N (Ahlstrom et al. 1976) to Chile (Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Juveniles epipelagic, adults mesopelagic and possibly bathypelagic (Haedrich in Whitehead et al. 1986); depth: 30–1,500 m (98–4,920 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Roberts et al. 2015).