Antarctica: Scotia Bay (South Orkneys) and Petermann Island, off Graham Land. [details]
The specific epithet refers to the type locality of the species, Antarctica. [details]
Probably the result of a databasing lapsus. No species was described in Hartman (1978) as Asclerocheilus ... [details]
Antarctic Ocean, South Orkney Islands, Scotia Bay, 10 fathoms deep (about 18 meters). [details]
Holotype reported to be originally deposited at the Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory, Edinburgh. Paratype ... [details]