Phylliroe bucephala Lamarck, 1816

Habitat.

Pelagic.

Depth.

40-60 m ( Fernández-Alamo 1997).

Type material.

Not available.

Distribution.

Circumtropical (van der Spoel et al. 1997).

Sampling/reporting sites.

In Peru, it was reported in Tumbes and Piura (Quesquen 2017). It was also reported in the Canary Islands ( Hernández and Jiménez 1996), off the coasts of Florida and Bermuda (Abbott 1974), in northeastern Atlantic waters near the African coast (van der Spoel 1970), and in the western Atlantic Ocean (Spencer et al. 2009). In the Mediterranean Sea there are reports from France and Syria (Durgham et al. 2016; Durgham and Ikhtiyar 2020; Pruvot-Fol 1954). Recorded south of the Pacific Ocean in Australia and New Zealand (Powell 1979; Spencer and Willan 1995). In the Indo-Pacific it has been reported from Vietnam (Sachidhanandam et al. 2000).

Family Cuthonidae Odhner, 1934