Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776). Slender Mola. To 90 cm (35.4 in) TL (Hutchins in Carpenter and Niem 2001). Circumglobal (Hutchins in Carpenter and Niem 2001); western Pacific Ocean north to Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002); Oceano, central California (Snyder 1913) to Chile (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), including southern Gulf of California (Scott in Fischer et al. 1995). Depth: surface to 257 m (843 ft) (Roberts et al. 2015).