Aristostomias Zugmayer [E.] 1913:1 Masc. Aristostomias grimaldii Zugmayer 1913. Type by monotypy. Also as Zugmayer 1940:201 [ref. 4849]. •Valid as Aristostomias Zugmayer 1913 -- (Morrow 1964:531 [ref. 6958], Goodyear 1973:142 [ref. 7176], Kawaguchi & Moser 1984:171 [ref. 13642], Gibbs in Whitehead et al. 1984:367 [ref. 13675], Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:53 [ref. 6441], Fink 1985:11 [ref. 5171], Goodyear & Gibbs 1986:235 [ref. 5658], Harold 1999:1917 [ref. 24741] as Aristomias, Mecklenburg et al. 2002:222 [ref. 25968], Harold 2003:903 [ref. 27001], Parin et al. 2014:148 [ref. 33547], Kenaley & Stewart 2015:526 [ref. 34248], Schnell & Johnson 2017:1 [ref. 35193]). Current status: Valid as Aristostomias Zugmayer 1913. Stomiidae: Malacosteinae.