Malacocephalus laevis (Lowe, 1843) .

Softhead Grenadier or Velvet Grenadier. To 65.5 cm (25.8 in) TL (Tomio Iwamoto, pers. comm. to M.L.). Circumglobal; Point Sur, central California (Hoff 1999) to Baja California (Sazonov and Iwamoto 1992); Chile (Pequeño 1989). Benthopelagic; depth: 50–1,200 m (164–3,936 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max. Pakhorukov 2008). Maximum depth perhaps of a specimen taken in midwaters over deeper waters (Tomio Iwamoto, pers. comm. to M.L.).