Range and natural history
FishBase lists a depth range of about 120–475 meters. Adults are bottom-associated, whereas juveniles occur in the water column. Eggs are thought to be released in floating gelatinous sheets, and the larvae are planktonic; the source presents the egg-sheet detail as presumed rather than confirmed.
The fish can occur as trawl bycatch. Those encounters are useful distribution records when specimens are identified carefully, but they do not establish a complete picture of its abundance or movement across its broad Pacific range.
Sources: Lophiodes spilurus species summary
