Melamphaes Günther [A.] 1864:433 Masc. Metopias typhlops Lowe 1843. Type by being a replacement name. Treated by authors as masculine. Replacement for Metopias Lowe 1843, preoccupied by Metopias Gory 1832 [not researched]. •Valid as Melamphaes Günther 1864 -- (Ebeling 1962 [ref. 5896], Maul 1973:343 [ref. 7171], Ebeling & Weed 1973:451 [ref. 6898], Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:111 [ref. 6441], Maul in Whitehead et al. 1986:757 [ref. 13676], Ebeling 1986:427 [ref. 5651], Paxton et al. 1989:371 [ref. 12442], Gon 1990:218 [ref. 21680], Gomon et al. 1994:415 [ref. 22532], Kotlyar 1996:272 [ref. 23292], Moore & Paxton 1999:2202 [ref. 24787], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:317 [ref. 25968], Moore 2003:1163 [ref. 27002], Kotlyar 2004:1 [ref. 27590], Paxton et al. 2006:748 [ref. 28995], Bray 2008:410 [ref. 30620], Kotlyar 2011:558 [ref. 31578], Kotlyar 2011:569 [ref. 31579], Kotlyar 2012:137 [ref. 31963], Kotlyar 2012:247 [ref. 32009], Kotlyar 2013:775 [ref. 37797], Mincarone et al. 2014:1548 [ref. 33546], Parin et al. 2014:198 [ref. 33547], Kotlyar 2014:632 [ref. 33889], Kotlyar 2015:260 [ref. 33882], Kotlyar 2015:619 [ref. 33995], Kotlyar 2015:636 [ref. 34100], Stewart & Bray 2015:980 [ref. 34276], Kotlyar 2016:19 [ref. 34170], Kotlyar 2016:251 [ref. 34507], Kotlyar 2016:379 [ref. 35038], Robertson et al. 2017:73 [ref. 35676], Fricke et al. 2018:109 [ref. 35805], Kimura et al. 2019:85 [ref. 37116]). Current status: Valid as Melamphaes Günther 1864. Melamphaidae.