Tropical and temperate seas; northward to northern Norway in the eastern Atlantic, to the Newfoundland banks, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the coast of Nova Scotia in the western Atlantic.
- Bigelow, H. B. and Schroeder, W. C., 1953; Tortonese, E., 1990; Clemens, W. A. and G. V. Wilby, 1961; Whitehead, P. J. P., Bauchot, M.-L., Hureau, J.-C., Nielsen, J., Tortonese, E., 1984.
