Bathypterois Günther [A.] 1878:183 Fem. Bathypterois longifilis Günther 1878. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Jordan 1919:395 [ref. 4904]. Misspelled Brachypterois by Jordan & Seale 1906:189 [ref. 2497]. •Valid as Bathypterois Günther 1878 -- (Nielsen 1973:164 [ref. 6885], Sulak 1977:74 [ref. 4299], Sulak in Whitehead et al. 1984:414 [ref. 13675], Okiyama 1984:207 [ref. 13644], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:63 [ref. 6441], Sulak 1986:262 [ref. 5720], Merrett & Nielsen 1987 [ref. 6058], Sulak & Shcherbachev 1988 [ref. 6677], Paxton et al. 1989:235 [ref. 12442], Paxton & Niem 1999:1924 [ref. 24746], Thompson 2003:918 [ref. 27003], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:260 [ref. 28944], Paxton et al. 2006:485 [ref. 28996], Franco et al. 2009:801 [ref. 32442], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:23 [ref. 36649], Gomon 2015:564 [ref. 34251], Bañón et al. 2016:310 [ref. 34397], Robertson et al. 2017:46 [ref. 35676], Fricke et al. 2018:72 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:52 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:66 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Bathypterois Günther 1878. Ipnopidae.