californica, Torpedo Ayres [W. O.] 1855:70 [Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1) v. 1 (pt 1); ref. 159] San Francisco, California, U.S.A. No types known. •Valid as Torpedo californica Ayres 1855 -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:53 [ref. 9277], McAllister 1990:34 [ref. 14674], Castro-Aguirre & Espinosa Pérez 1996:22 [ref. 22793], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:81 [ref. 24555], Compagno 1999:487 [ref. 25589], Nakabo 2000:162 [ref. 25086], Neer & Cailliet 2001:842 [ref. 25474], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:90 [ref. 25968], Nakabo 2002:162 [ref. 26001], Carvalho et al. 2002:31 [ref. 26091], Nelson et al. 2004:54 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:10 [ref. 37547], Page et al. 2013:54 [ref. 32708], Pietsch & Orr 2015:17 [ref. 34694], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:101 [ref. 34398], Kells et al. 2016:76 [ref. 35888]). •Valid as Tetronarce californica (Ayres 1855) -- (Ebert et al. 2015:245 [ref. 33710], Weigmann 2016:77 [ref. 34211] see remarks, Carvalho et al. 2016:186 [ref. 34999], Ebert et al. 2017:57 [ref. 35618], Ehemann et al. 2018:26 [ref. 36194], Burgos-Vázquez et al. 2019:[2] [ref. 36691], Burton & Lea 2019:31 [ref. 37205], González-Acosta et al. 2021:7 [ref. 38361], Love et al. 2021:22 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:43 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Tetronarce californica (Ayres 1855). Torpedinidae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Japan north to southern Kuril Islands; northern-central Pacific: Kinmei Seamount; eastern Pacific: northern British Columbia (Canada) south to Pacific coast of Baja California Sur (Mexico), including Guadalupe Island (Mexico) and southern Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: marine.