apus, Platytroctes Günther [A.] 1878:249 [22] [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 5) v. 2 (nos 7/8/9)(art. 2/22/28); ref. 2010] Mid-Atlantic, 1°N, 26°36'W, Challenger station 107, depth 1500 fathoms. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1887.12.7.235. On p. 22 of separate. See also Günther 1887:249, Pl. 58 (fig. A) [ref. 2013]. •Valid as Platytroctes apus Günther 1878 -- (Krefft 1973:98 [ref. 7166], Shimizu in Uyeno et al. 1983:128 [ref. 14275], Quéro et al. in Whitehead et al. 1984:264 [ref. 13675], Matsui & Rosenblatt 1987:104 [ref. 10670], Paxton et al. 1989:213 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:34 [ref. 14125], Quéro et al. 1990:272 [ref. 14648], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:407 [ref. 23897], Sazonov 1999:1895 [ref. 24740], Pakhorukov 1999:656 [ref. 24883], Hutchins 2001:19 [ref. 25847], Carter & Hartel 2003:880 [ref. 27000], Paxton et al. 2006:382 [ref. 28995], Hartel et al. 2008:322 [ref. 29890], Møller et al. 2010:26 [ref. 31169], Fricke et al. 2011:356 [ref. 31242], Williams & Stewart 2015:352 [ref. 34243], Afonso et al. 2016:16, 252 [ref. 36199], Orrell & Hartel 2016:1781 [ref. 34567], Robertson et al. 2017:42 [ref. 35676], Carneiro et al. 2019:81 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:45 [ref. 37832], Love et al. 2021:51 [ref. 39279], Fermon et al. 2022:133 [ref. 39448], Grove et al. 2022:16 [ref. 41326], Page et al. 2023:63 [ref. 40505], Fricke et al. 2024:156 [ref. 41622]). Current status: Valid as Platytroctes apus Günther 1878. Platytroctidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea). IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.