Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco, 1833 .

Oilfish. To 305 cm (10 ft) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002), and southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); well off Bodega Bay (38°15’N, 123°30’W), northern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to southern Baja California and Costa Rica (Robertson and Allen 2015) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Oceanic benthopelagic; depth: 22–1,160 m (72–3,806 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Pakhorukov 1999).