Tropical-warm temperature Atlantic; from southern Brazil to North Carolina in the west, and as a stray to southern New England and Massachussetts Bay; tropical West Africa in the east; also from southern California to Ecuador on the Pacific Coast of America.
- Bigelow, H. B. and Schroeder, W. C.,1953; Compagno, L. J. V., 1984; Frimodt, C., 1995.
