agassizii, Alepocephalus Goode [G. B.] & Bean [T. H.] 1883:218 [Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 10 (no. 5); ref. 1838] Western North Atlantic [off New Jersey, U.S.A.], 38°18'40"N, 73°18'10"W, Blake station 338, depth 922 fathoms. Holotype (unique): MCZ 25875. •Valid as Alepocephalus agassizii Goode & Bean 1883 -- (Krefft 1973:86 [ref. 7166], Markle & Quéro in Whitehead et al. 1984:230 [ref. 13675], Scott & Scott 1988:186 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:72 [ref. 14674] as agassizi, Markle & Sazonov 1990:246 [ref. 14215], Nakamura & Okamura in Okamura et al. 1995:72 [ref. 22531], Arruda 1997:25 [ref. 24952], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:384 [ref. 23897], Carter & Hartel 2003:878 [ref. 27000], Moore et al. 2003:178 [ref. 27076], Møller et al. 2010:23 [ref. 31169], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:118 [ref. 31212], Afonso et al. 2016:16, 78 [ref. 36199], Hartel & Orrell 2016:1768 [ref. 34565], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:75 [ref. 36370], Carneiro et al. 2019:74 [ref. 37250], Quéro et al. 2019:28 [ref. 36877], Bañón & Maño 2021:52 [ref. 38883], Simian et al. 2022:374 [ref. 40776], Page et al. 2023:61 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Alepocephalus agassizii Goode & Bean 1883. Alepocephalidae. Distribution: North Atlantic and adjacent Arctic Region. Habitat: marine.