[3] Gadella maraldi is found in the warmer waters of the north eastern Atlantic from the southern Atlantic coast of Portugal south to west Africa, its southern limit in Africa being uncertain.

Its Atlantic range includes the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores, as well as the Grand Meteor Bank.

[1] It has been recorded as far north as Galicia and three specimens were taken from the Porcupine Bank off Ireland in the 21st Century.

[4] Gadella maraldi is a benthopelagic fish which can be found on the upper continental slope, over hard substrates at depths ranging from 150 to 700 m, to 368–748m in the east Ionian Sea.

[3] It is taken as a bycatch and occasionally recorded in markets but it is not a commercially significant species.