Diretmoides pauciradiatus (Woods, 1973) .

To about 40 cm (15.8 in)TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983).Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Kyashu– Palau Ridge, southern Japan (Hayashi in Nakabo 2002), and Washington (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Depth: about 198 m to at least 1,880 m (650–6,168 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Hayashi in Nakabo 2002). Adults mainly below 500 m (1,640 ft) (Post in Whitehead et al. 1986), juveniles as shallow as 50 m (165 ft) (Post and Quéro 1981).