Please look in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes for authorships of sections, Families of Fishes (all), and related information.

Species in the genus Haptenchelys: [ 2 ] records

parviocularis, Haptenchelys Tashiro [F.] & Shinohara [G.] 2014:2, Figs. 2-4 [Ichthyological Research v. 62 (no. 2); ref. 33342] Pacific off Kii Peninsula, Wakayama, Honshu, Japan, 32°0.70'N, 135°57.20'E-32°0.30'N, 136°2.70'E, depth 4093 meters. Holotype: NSMT-P 105643. Paratypes (14 specimens): NSMT-P 45905 (1), 45906 (1), 98075 (1), 104167 (1), 104561 (1), 104562 (1), 105642 (1), 105644 (1), 105645 (1), 114630 (1), 114631 (1), 115288 (1), 115289 (1); USNM 410925 (formerly NSMT-P104572) (1). •Valid as Haptenchelys parviocularis Tashiro & Shinohara 2014. Current status: Valid as Haptenchelys parviocularis Tashiro & Shinohara 2014. Synaphobranchidae: Synaphobranchinae. Distribution: Pacific abyssal zone off southern Japan (to northern part of Philippine plate). Habitat: marine.

texis, Haptenchelys Robins [C. H.] & Martin [D. M.] in Robins & Robins 1976:267, Figs. 5-6, 7a, 8 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 127; ref. 3784] Bahamas, 25°16.75-18.75'N, 77°45.5-42.8'W, depth 2780-2890 meters. Holotype: ANSP 133811. Paratypes: ANSP 133812 (1), 133813 (1, c&s); TCWC 6326.01 (1); ?TAMU 68-A-10 (1); UF 232881 [ex UMML 32881] (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:158 [ref. 13621]. •Valid as Haptenchelys texis Robins & Martin 1976 -- (Robins & Robins 1989:232 [ref. 13287], Sulak & Shcherbachev 1997:1167 [ref. 22986], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:246 [ref. 23897], Smith 2003:723 [ref. 26989], Karmovskaya 2003:438 [ref. 27168], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:34 [ref. 27192], Melo 2007:315 [ref. 29141], Fricke et al. 2011:351 [ref. 31242], Tashiro & Shinohara 2014:6 [ref. 33342], Smith 2016:1650 [ref. 34556], Page et al. 2023:51 [ref. 40505], Fricke et al. 2024:112 [ref. 41622], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2025:suppl. Tab. 1, p. 3 [ref. 42574]). Current status: Valid as Haptenchelys texis Robins & Martin 1976. Synaphobranchidae: Synaphobranchinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Rockall Bank (Ireland) south to Senegal; southwestern Pacific: Vanuatu. IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.