Benthosema panamense (Tåning, 1932) .

To 6.0 cm (2.5 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). San Clemente Basin (32°26’N, 118°47’W), southern California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to Peru (9°07’S, 80°01’W) (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Wisner 1976). Depth: surface to 600 m (1,968 ft) (min.: Wisner 1976; max.: Robertson et al. 2017). A deeper capture, 2,000 m (6,650 ft) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), was made with a midwater trawl that may have taken the specimen shallower than the deepest tow depth.