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morphology; Confirmed records exist in the eastern Atlantic (Iceland, Faeroe Islands, Rockall Trough along Ireland to northern France, Canary Islands and off Cap Blanc, Mauritania, Namibia and South Africa), western Atlantic (Nova Scotia, Canada to Chesapeake Bay, U.S.A., and southern Brazil), north Pacific (off Japan), eastern Pacific (off California, U.S.A., Mexico (Gulf of California and Central coast), Costa Rica (this study), and Peru), and southwestern Pacific (off New Zealand and Australia). |