Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (Smith, 1843). Escolar. To 220 cm (86.6 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002) and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); Point Vicente, southern California (Fitch and Schultz 1978) to Cabo Blanco, Peru (Chirichigno 1974); apparently not in Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Miller and Lea (1972) give Washington State as the northern-most record—a record without documentation according to Fitch and Schultz (1978). Oceanic pelagic and mesopelagic; depth: 25–1,100 m (82–3,608 ft) (min.: Azevedo and Heemstra 1995; max.: Duffy and Ahlong 2015).