Southwest Pacific: endemic to the New Zealand Plateau.
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Anderson, M.E. 1994 Systematics and osteology of the Zoarcidae (Teleostei: Perciformes). Ichthyol. Bull. J.L.B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol. 60:120 p. (Ref. 11954)
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