Myctophum Rafinesque [C. S.] 1810:35, 56 Neut. Myctophum punctatum Rafinesque 1810. Type by monotypy. •Valid as Myctophum Rafinesque 1810 -- (Krefft & Bekker 1973:171 [ref. 7181], Paxton 1979:15 [ref. 6440], Hulley in Whitehead et al. 1984:472 [ref. 13675], Moser et al. 1984:219 [ref. 13645], Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:66 [ref. 6441], Hulley 1986:312 [ref. 5672], Paxton et al. 1989:266 [ref. 12442], Paxton & Hulley 1999:1959 [ref. 24748], Hartel & Craddock 2003:947 [ref. 27005], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:260 [ref. 28944], Paxton et al. 2006:525 [ref. 28994], Paxton & Bray 2008:289 [ref. 30633], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:26 [ref. 36649], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:120 [ref. 31212], Klepadlo et al. 2014:106 [ref. 33349], Parin et al. 2014:158 [ref. 33547], Robertson & Clements 2015:670 [ref. 34257], Bañón et al. 2016:312 [ref. 34397], Motomura et al. 2017:53 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:79 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:68[ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Myctophum Rafinesque 1810. Myctophidae: Myctophinae.