smithii, Scopelosaurus Bean [B. A.] 1925:13 [Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington v. 38; ref. 15529] Off the coast of Brazil. Holotype (unique): USNM 86676. •Valid as Scopelosaurus smithii Bean 1925 -- (Krefft 1973:168 [ref. 7166], Fujii in Uyeno et al. 1983:171 [ref. 14275], Bertelsen et al. 1976:44 [ref. 289], Krefft in Whitehead et al. 1984:425 [ref. 13675], Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:64 [ref. 6441], Krefft 1986:270 [ref. 5684], Krefft 1990:363 [ref. 15146], Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:270 [ref. 21953], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:574 [ref. 23897], Paxton & Niem 1999:1927 [ref. 24746], Nakabo 2000:361 [ref. 25086], Paxton in Randall & Lim 2000:591 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2002:361 [ref. 26001], Figueiredo & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:49 [ref. 27192], Moore et al. 2003:197 [ref. 27076], Thompson 2003:922 [ref. 27003], Shinohara et al. 2005:408 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:198 [ref. 28379], Russell 2016:1832 [ref. 34572], Carneiro et al. 2019:108 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:137 [ref. 37832], Eduardo et al. 2022:7 [ref. 39574], Page et al. 2023:91 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Scopelosaurus smithii Bean 1925. Notosudidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas, except eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.