Nemichthys Richardson [J.] 1848:25 Masc. Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson 1848. Type by monotypy. Type species sometimes as N. scolopacea. •Valid as Nemichthys Richardson 1848 -- (Larsen 1973:231 [ref. 7187], Karmovskaya 1982:155 [ref. 5204], Karrer 1982:102 [ref. 5679], Asano in Masuda et al. 1984:22 [ref. 6441], Nielsen in Whitehead et al. 1986:552 [ref. 13676], Castle 1986:193 [ref. 5644], Paxton et al. 1989:134 [ref. 12442], Smith & Nielsen 1989:452 [ref. 13290], Smith 1999:1679 [ref. 24661], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:124 [ref. 25968], Smith 2003:742 [ref. 26989], Paxton et al. 2006:285 [ref. 28995], Smith 2008:171 [ref. 30621], Fricke et al. 2009:21 [ref. 30213], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:18 [ref. 36649], Zhang et al. 2010:308 [ref. 31511], Parin et al. 2014:49 [ref. 33547], Smith & Stewart 2015:267 [ref. 34234], Pietsch & Orr 2015:18 [ref. 34694], Bañón et al. 2016:305 [ref. 34397], Cruz-Mena & Angulo 2016:4 [ref. 34749], Robertson et al. 2017:36 [ref. 35676], Fricke et al. 2018:48 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:54 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Nemichthys Richardson 1848. Nemichthyidae.