bathyphilum, Neostoma Vaillant [L. L.] in Filhol 1884:184, Fig. 1 [La Nature, Paris No. 559, 16 Feb. 1884; ref. 1326] Gulf of Gascony. Syntypes: MNHN 1883-0056 (1), 1885-0059 (1), 1885-0060 (1). Type catalog: Bertin 1940:312 [ref. 293]. Often dated to 1888 but available from above. Also appeared in Vaillant 1888:96, Pl. 8 (fig. 1) [ref. 4496]. •Valid as Gonostoma bathyphilum (Vaillant 1884) -- (Witzell 1973:114 [ref. 7172], Badcock in Whitehead et al. 1984:299 [ref. 13675], Schaefer et al. 1986:252 [ref. 5709], Scott & Scott 1988:164 [ref. 25518], Paxton et al. 1989:185 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:30 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:93 [ref. 24556], McAllister 1990:88 [ref. 14674], Quéro et al. 1990:289 [ref. 14659], Gomon et al. 1994:247 [ref. 22532], Nielsen & Schwägermann in Okamura et al. 1995:89 [ref. 22531], Santos et al. 1997:30 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:32 [ref. 24952], Porteiro et al. 1999:28 [ref. 24203], Harold 1999:1899 [ref. 24741], Miya & Nishida 2000:385 [ref. 24454], Hutchins 2001:19 [ref. 25847], Harold 2003:884 [ref. 27001], Moore et al. 2003:182 [ref. 27076], Ozawa & Katayama 2003:197 [ref. 26921], Harold & Gomon 2008:227 [ref. 30629], Costa & Mincarone 2010:353 [ref. 37483], Møller et al. 2010:28 [ref. 31169], Lee & Kim 2013:46 [ref. 36296], Kenaley & Stewart 2015:433 [ref. 34248], Bañón et al. 2016:307 [ref. 34397], Harold 2016:1787 [ref. 34568]). •Valid as Sigmops bathyphilus (Vaillant 1884) -- (Paxton et al. 2006:422 [ref. 28995], Afonso et al. 2016:26, 278 [ref. 36199], Carneiro et al. 2019:88 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:62 [ref. 37832], Bañón & Maño 2021:54 [ref. 38883], Eduardo et al. 2022:5 [ref. 39574], Fermon et al. 2022:168 [ref. 39448], Villarins et al. 2022:14 [ref. 39442], Page et al. 2023:84 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Sigmops bathyphilus (Vaillant 1884). Gonostomatidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in temperate and subtropical waters. Habitat: marine.