valdiviae, Melanostomias Brauer [A.] 1902:285 [Zoologischer Anzeiger v. 25 (no. 668); ref. 631] Off west coast of Sumatra, ca. 48 kilometers southeast of Telukdalem, southern Pulau Nias, Sumatera Utara Province, Indonesia, eastern Indian Ocean, 0°15'02"N, 98°08'08"E, Valdivia station 194, depth 614 meters. Holotype (unique): ZMB 17448. •Valid as Melanostomias valdiviae Brauer 1902 -- (Morrow 1973:134 [ref. 7175], Gibbs in Whitehead et al. 1984:360 [ref. 13675], Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:51 [ref. 6441], Gibbs 1986:242 [ref. 5655], Coad 1987:89 [ref. 11817], Scott & Scott 1988:178 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:95 [ref. 14674], Gibbs & Barnett 1990:330 [ref. 14915], Santos et al. 1997:37 [ref. 23531], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:531 [ref. 23897], Fricke 1999:90 [ref. 24106], Porteiro et al. 1999:10 [ref. 24203], Harold 1999:1913 [ref. 24741], Nakabo 2000:337 [ref. 25086], Nakabo 2002:337 [ref. 26001], Harold 2003:912 [ref. 27001], Menezes et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:47 [ref. 27192], Moore et al. 2003:190 [ref. 27076], Love et al. 2005:39 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:188 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:449 [ref. 28995], Kenaley et al. 2008:250 [ref. 30630], Kenaley & Stewart 2015:517 [ref. 34248], Harold 2016:1814 [ref. 34568], Carneiro et al. 2019:102 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:118 [ref. 37832], Love et al. 2021:60 [ref. 39279], Fermon et al. 2022:177 [ref. 39448] with question, Rajakrishnan et al. 2023:4 [ref. 40681], Page et al. 2023:89 [ref. 40505], Villarins et al. 2023:254 [ref. 40197]). Current status: Valid as Melanostomias valdiviae Brauer 1902. Stomiidae: Melanostomiinae. Distribution: Circumglobal, but not in southeastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.