nigricans, Bathylaco Goode [G. B.] & Bean [T. H.] 1896:57, Pl. 18 (fig. 69) [Special Bulletin U. S. National Museum No. 2; ref. 1848] Off Santa Cruz [St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands, northern Caribbean Sea], 17°56.9'N, 64°54.3'W, Blake station 121, depth 2393 fathoms (4376 meters). Holotype (unique): MCZ 28061. •Valid as Bathylaco nigricans Goode & Bean 1896 -- (Nielsen & Larsen 1968:222 [ref. 7907], Nielsen & Larsen 1970:30 [ref. 7769], Nielsen 1972:34 [ref. 3197], Nielsen 1973:85 [ref. 6885], Markle & Quéro in Whitehead et al. 1984:235 [ref. 13675], Matarese et al. 1989:76 [ref. 26885], Markle & Sazonov 1990:251 [ref. 14215], Santos et al. 1997:27 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:26 [ref. 24952], Sazonov & Markle 1999:1893 [ref. 24739], Sazonov & Williams 2001:S8 [ref. 26712], Carter & Hartel 2003:878 [ref. 27000], Moore et al. 2003:178 [ref. 27076], Love et al. 2005:30 [ref. 37547], Møller et al. 2010:24 [ref. 31169], Hartel & Orrell 2016:1769 [ref. 34565], Carneiro et al. 2019:76 [ref. 37250], Fermon et al. 2022:130 [ref. 39448] possible, Love et al. 2021:49 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:61 [ref. 40505], Fricke et al. 2024:154 [ref. 41622]). Current status: Valid as Bathylaco nigricans Goode & Bean 1896. Alepocephalidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in warm to temperate waters; in eastern Pacific from Washington (U.S.A.) south to Colombia. Habitat: marine.