mauli, Yarrella Poll [M.] 1953:59, Fig. 24 [Résultats Scientifiques. Expédition Océanographique Belge dans les Eaux Côtières Africaines de l'Atlantique Sud (1948-1949). Bruxelles. v. 4 (no. 2); ref. 12713] 30 miles southwest of Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo, South Atlantic, 5°15'S, 11°29'E, depth 225-240 meters. Holotype: IRSNB 134. Paratypes: (158) IRSNB 135-139 (71, 1, 2, 32, 2), MRAC 95026-73 (48). Type catalog: Walschaerts 1987:8 [ref. 20755]. •Valid as Pollichthys mauli (Poll 1953) -- (Witzell 1973:120 [ref. 7172], Badcock in Whitehead et al. 1984:320 [ref. 13675], Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:45 [ref. 6441], Schaefer et al. 1986:245 [ref. 5709], Scott & Scott 1988:167 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:91 [ref. 14674], Quéro et al. 1990:344 [ref. 14985], Boschung 1992:69 [ref. 23239], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:443 [ref. 23897], Nakabo 2000:319 [ref. 25086], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:151 [ref. 27754], Nakabo 2002:319 [ref. 26001], Harold 2003:888 [ref. 27001], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:46 [ref. 27192], Moore et al. 2003:183 [ref. 27076], Nelson et al. 2004:87 [ref. 27807], Mundy 2005:172 [ref. 28379], Fricke et al. 2009:24 [ref. 30213], Costa & Mincarone 2010:353 [ref. 37483], Page et al. 2013:88 [ref. 32708], Pinheiro et al. 2015:7 [ref. 34324], Harold 2016:1791 [ref. 34568], Nión et al. 2016:36 [ref. 35565], Carneiro et al. 2019:92 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:64 [ref. 37832], Eduardo et al. 2022:6 [ref. 39574], Fermon et al. 2022:170 [ref. 39448], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:67 [ref. 41223], Villarins et al. 2022:28 [ref. 39442], Page et al. 2023:85 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Pollichthys mauli (Poll 1953). Phosichthyidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas, but possibly absent from eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.