obscura, Cyclothone Brauer [A.] 1902:280 [Zoologischer Anzeiger v. 25 (no. 668); ref. 631] Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Lectotype: ZMB 17512. Paralectotypes: ASUM A19.2.1.5a (1); SNMBR I-10035 (1); SMF 2113 (1); SMNS 4491 (1); ZMB 17509-10 (1, 1), 17480 (2), 19321 (3), 22324 (2); ZMH 8233 [now 10844] (1). Type catalog: Fricke 1991:1023 [ref. 19904], Wilkens & Dohse 1993:411 [ref. 21161], Fricke 1995:14 [ref. 28100], Fricke 2005:41 [ref. 29864]. A single specimen collected at Valdivia St. 237 was measured in the original description. Lectotype designated by Gon et al. 2022:57 [ref. 39777]. •Valid as Cyclothone obscura Brauer 1902 -- (Badcock 1982:209 [ref. 8512], Badcock in Whitehead et al. 1984:292 [ref. 13675], Miya & Nemoto 1987:417 [ref. 22502], Paxton et al. 1989:184 [ref. 12442], Quéro et al. 1990:285 [ref. 14659], Miya 1994:327 [ref. 22168], Miya 1994:200 [ref. 22045], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:418 [ref. 23897], Harold 1999:1899 [ref. 24741], Nakabo 2000:310 [ref. 25086], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:590 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:19 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:310 [ref. 26001], Harold 2003:884 [ref. 27001], Mundy 2005:165 [ref. 28379], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:250 [ref. 28944], Paxton et al. 2006:420 [ref. 28995], Larson et al. 2013:44 [ref. 32988], Harold 2016:1786 [ref. 34568], Carneiro et al. 2019:87 [ref. 37250], Fricke et al. 2019:59 [ref. 36673], Sutton et al. 2020:57 [ref. 37832], Fermon et al. 2022:167 [ref. 39448], Gon et al. 2022:54 [ref. 39777], Page et al. 2023:84 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Cyclothone obscura Brauer 1902. Gonostomatidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas. Habitat: marine.