Simenchelys Gill [T. N.] in Goode & Bean 1879:27 Fem. Simenchelys parasiticus Gill 1879. Type by monotypy. Simenchelis is a misspelling. •Valid as Simenchelys Gill 1879 -- (Blache et al. 1973:223 [ref. 7185], Asano in Masuda et al. 1984:26 [ref. 6441], Saldanha & Bauchot in Whitehead et al. 1986:590 [ref. 13676], Castle 1986:190 [ref. 5644], Paxton et al. 1989:108 [ref. 12442], Robins & Robins 1989:214 [ref. 13287], Sulak & Shcherbachev 1997:1161 [ref. 22986], Smith 1999:1660 [ref. 24661], Smith 2003:721 [ref. 26989], Paxton et al. 2006:263 [ref. 28995], Smith 2008:163 [ref. 30621], Fricke et al. 2009:18 [ref. 30213], Smith & Stewart 2015:246 [ref. 34234], Fricke et al. 2018:42 [ref. 35805], Brown et al. 2019:154 [ref. 36444]). Current status: Valid as Simenchelys Gill 1879. Synaphobranchidae: Simenchelyinae.