Pseudoscopelus Lütken [C. F.] 1892:285 Masc. Pseudoscopelus scriptus Lütken 1892. Type by monotypy. Misspelled Pseudoseopelus by Jordan 1923:230 [ref. 2421]. •Valid as Pseudoscopelus Lütken 1892 -- (Krefft 1971 [ref. 7434], Krefft 1973:453 [ref. 7166], Uyeno & Aizawa in Uyeno et al. 1983:403 [ref. 14275], Uyeno in Masuda et al. 1984:221 [ref. 6441], Johnson & Keene in Whitehead et al. 1986:960 [ref. 13676], Nakabo et al. 1992 [ref. 21909], Mooi & Paxton 2001:3496 [ref. 26280], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:788 [ref. 25968], McEachran & Sutton 2003:1743 [ref. 27107], Parin 2003:S19 [ref. 28536], Prokofiev & Kukuyev 2005:754 [ref. 28534], Prokofiev & Kukuev 2006:558 [ref. 28731], Prokofiev & Kukuev 2006:159 [ref. 28617], Bray & Hoese 2006:1482 [ref. 29049], Melo et al. 2007:33 [ref. 29307], Spitz et al. 2007:333 [ref. 29400], Prokofiev & Kukuev 2008:13 [ref. 29599], Melo 2009:602 [ref. 30374], Prokofiev 2009:10 [ref. 30026], Prokofiev 2009:930 [ref. 30607], Melo 2010:4, 9 [ref. 31058], Prokofiev 2011:695 [ref. 31701], Parin et al. 2014:462 [ref. 33547], Prokofiev 2014:646 [ref. 34633], Melo & Stewart 2015:1455 [ref. 34290], Melo 2016:2 [ref. 34898], Robertson et al. 2017:96 [ref. 35676]). Current status: Valid as Pseudoscopelus Lütken 1892. Chiasmodontidae.