curvifrons, Bathytroctes Roule [L.] & Angel [F.] 1931:6 [Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique (Monaco) No. 581; ref. 3825] West of Gulf of Gascony, North Atlantic, 46°N, 10°W, station 3318, depth 0-4500 meters. Holotype (unique): MOM 0091-1517. Type catalog: Belloc 1949:5 [ref. 21544]. Also appeared in Roule & Angel 1933:6, Pl. 1 (fig. 2) [ref. 3827]. •Valid as Barbantus curvifrons (Roule & Angel 1931) -- (Krefft 1973:95 [ref. 7166], Quéro et al. in Whitehead et al. 1984:258 [ref. 13675], Matsui & Rosenblatt 1987:108 [ref. 10670], Pequeño 1989:33 [ref. 14125], Quéro et al. 1990:265 [ref. 14648], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:404 [ref. 23897], Sazonov 1999:1895 [ref. 24740], Sazonov & Merrett 2001:S38 [ref. 26652], Carter & Hartel 2003:880 [ref. 27000], Moore et al. 2003:180 [ref. 27076], Møller et al. 2010:25 [ref. 31169], Orrell & Hartel 2016:1776 [ref. 34567], Robertson et al. 2017:42 [ref. 35676], Fricke et al. 2018:63 [ref. 35805], Carneiro et al. 2019:80 [ref. 37250], Reiner 2019:84 [ref. 38139], Sutton et al. 2020:45 [ref. 37832], Fermon et al. 2022:132 [ref. 39448], Page et al. 2023:62 [ref. 40505], Fricke et al. 2024:155 [ref. 41622]). Current status: Valid as Barbantus curvifrons (Roule & Angel 1931). Platytroctidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico and southern Gulf of California/Mexico). IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.