Lampanyctus nobilis Tåning, 1928 .

To 12.4 cm (4.9 in) SL (Hulley in Smith and Heemstra 1986). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002), and east of Kuril Islands (Savinykh et al. 2004); southern California (33°14’N, 121°24’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Mesopelagic (Hulley and Paxton in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016); depth: 40–3,080 m (131–10,102 ft) (min.: Mundy 2005; max. Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).