Rondeletia loricata Abe & Hotta, 1963 .

Armored Redmouth Whalefish or Redmouth Whalefish. To 15 cm (6 in) TL (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Uyeno in Masuda et al. 1984) and Sea of Okhotsk (44°20’N, 148°37’E) (Kharin 2006b); Washington (47°12’N) (Lauth 2001) to Chile (27°04’S, 71°45’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and Islas Galápagos (1°46’S, 89°56’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Mesopelagic (Paxton in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016); depth: 100–3,500 m (328–11,480 ft) (min.: Clarke and Wagner 1976; max.: Kamikawa 2017); juveniles in shallower part of depth range (Kotlyar 1996).