Hoplobrotula Gill [T. N.] 1863:253 Fem. Brotula armata Temminck & Schlegel 1846. Type by original designation (also monotypic). Misspelled Haplobrotula in Zoological Record for 1921 and in Gilchrist 1922:76 [ref. 1648]. •Valid as Hoplobrotula Gill 1863 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:190 [ref. 7348], Cohen & Nielsen 1978:19 [ref. 881], Machida in Masuda et al. 1984:100 [ref. 6441], Nielsen & Cohen 1986:348 [ref. 5700], Paxton et al. 1989:312 [ref. 12442], Machida 1990 [ref. 19206], Nielsen & Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999:49, 69 [ref. 24448], Nielsen 1999:1981 [ref. 24753], Shinohara et al. 2011:40 [ref. 31715], Carnevale & Johnson 2015:778 [ref. 34391], Motomura et al. 2017:55 [ref. 35490]). Current status: Valid as Hoplobrotula Gill 1863. Ophidiidae: Neobythitinae.