Three specimens of this rare species have been taken in fall in the California driftnet fishery in recent years (11/29/84, Catalina Is, M 449 TL; 10/21/90, Dana Pt., M 494 cm TL; and 10/1/99,30 nm west San Diego, F ~519 cm TL). Only 11 other records of this species have been recorded from Hawaiian, Australian, Japanese, Brazilian, Philippine, Senagalese, and Indonesian waters, thus the 3 southern California records represent over 20% of worldwide distributional records.