Cataetyx simus Garman, 1899.

63.2 cm (24.8 in) TL (Froese and Pauly 2019; note that we were unable to verify this record). San Nicolas Island, southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and as far south as Chile (35°32’S, 73°07’W) (Kong et al. 1988). 690–2,690 m (2,263 –8,823 ft) (min.: Kong et al. 1988; max.: Personal communication: The Database of the Zoological Collections, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts).An apparently abnormally shallow depth range of 19–33 m (62–108 ft) is reported in Castellanos-Galindo et al. (2006a).