Known in Australia from a single AMS specimen collected from off the Gold coast (27°57´S, 154°03´E), Qld in 548 m depth (Ho & Last 2021).
Record source:
Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Last, Peter, 2021. Review of the batfish genus Malthopsis from Australia (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of five new species
, Bulletin of Marine Science, Vol. 97: 165-218. doi:10.5343/bms.2020.0037