affinis, Paralepis Ege [V.] 1930:81, Fig. 21 [Report on the Danish Oceanographical Expeditions 1908-1910 to the Mediterranean and Adjacent Seas v. 2 A (no. 13); ref. 16270] Central Atlantic, 12°11'N, 35°49'W, depth about 2000 meters. Lectotype: ZMUC P2318754. Paralectotypes: ZMUC (20), ZMUC P233171 (1), P233236 (1), P233250 (1), others uncat. Type catalog: Post 1972:137 [ref. 20860], Nielsen 1974:32 [ref. 9588]. Lectotype selected by Post 1972:137 [ref. 20860]. •Valid as Lestidiops affinis (Ege 1930) -- (Post 1973:206 [ref. 7182], Post in Whitehead et al. 1984:499 [ref. 13675], Post 1990:374 [ref. 15233], Santos et al. 1997:41 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:52 [ref. 24952], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:592 [ref. 23897], Moore et al. 2003:194 [ref. 27076], Thompson 2003:934 [ref. 27003], Menezes et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:50 [ref. 27192] with wrong locality, Fukui & Ozawa 2004:293 [ref. 28076], Russell 2016:1847 [ref. 34572], Carneiro et al. 2019:109 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:142 [ref. 37832], Eduardo et al. 2022:7 [ref. 39574], Fermon et al. 2022:184 [ref. 39448] possible, Page et al. 2023:92 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Lestidiops affinis (Ege 1930). Paralepididae. Distribution: Atlantic. Habitat: marine.