Lobianchia gemellari (Cocco, 1838) .

To more than 10 cm (3.9 in) SL(Hulley in Whitehead et al. 1984).Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); well off California (Savinykh 1999), northern Baja California (32°07’N, 119°29.2’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Mesopelagic (Hulley and Paxton in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016); depth: surface to 800 m (2,625 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Hulley in Smith and Heemstra 1986) and perhaps to 3,820 m (12,530 ft) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).