squamosus, Bathytroctes Alcock [A. W.] 1890:303 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6) v. 6 (no. 34); ref. 83] About 75 miles west of Goa coast, Laccadive Sea, 15°02'N, 72°34'E, Investigator station 105, depth 740 fathoms. Holotype (unique): ZSI F12869. Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:100 [ref. 20743]. Figured in Alcock 1892: Pl. 5 (fig. 1) [ref. 20531]. •Valid as Bathytroctes squamosus Alcock 1890 -- (Markle 1986:220 [ref. 5687], Shcherbachev et al. 1989:164, 168 [ref. 36134], Markle & Sazonov 1990:253 [ref. 14215], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:389 [ref. 23897], Fricke 1999:86 [ref. 24106], Sazonov 1999:737 [ref. 24845], Hutchins 2001:19 [ref. 25847], Sazonov & Williams 2001:S32 [ref. 26712], Carter & Hartel 2003:878 [ref. 27000], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:44 [ref. 27192], Moore et al. 2003:179 [ref. 27076], Hoese et al. 2006:387 [ref. 29035], Hartel & Orrell 2016:1769 [ref. 34565], Page et al. 2023:62 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bathytroctes squamosus Alcock 1890. Alepocephalidae. Distribution: Indian Ocean to Indo-Australian Archipelago, records elsewhere suspect. Habitat: marine.