Spence Bate (1888) reports the male holotype, from Sarmiento Channel, Patagonia, 51°27'30"S, 74°3'0"W, depth 732 m. Chace (1986) stated that "...except for the holotypes of A. carinata and A. approxima, which were taken at the same Challenger station near the Pacific end of the Straits of Magellan, this species is known only from the Philippines and Indonesia …”, considering it to be a benthic species living in depths of 315–1469 meters. Although this record has been repeated in several publications, the only further specimen based record in southern waters is from northern Chile (21°04’S, 71°31’W) by Guzmán (2004). As the disjunct geographical distribution attributed to this species seems questionable, we suspect the type locality to be erroneous and the species not to be sub- Antarctic. Synonym: Acanthephyra approxima Spence Bate, 1888.