ringens, Sudis Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1880:273 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 3 (no. 146); ref. 10599] Santa Barbara Channel, California, U.S.A. (stomach content). Holotype (unique): USNM 27401. Type catalog: Post 1972:159 [ref. 20860]. •Valid as Lestidium ringens (Jordan & Gilbert 1880) -- (Castro-Aguirre 1991:77 [ref. 19554]). •Valid as Lestidiops ringens (Jordan & Gilbert 1880) -- (Peden et al. 1985:6 [ref. 24081], Matarese et al. 1989:134 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:100 [ref. 14674], Balanov 2000:851 [ref. 25105], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:22 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:237 [ref. 25968], Fukui & Ozawa 2004:293 [ref. 28076], Love et al. 2005:41 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:204 [ref. 28379], Parin et al. 2014:153 [ref. 33547], Burton & Lea 2019:45 [ref. 37205], Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:30 [ref. 37828], Love et al. 2021:63 [ref. 39279], Ho & Tsai 2023:479 [ref. 40364], Page et al. 2023:92 [ref. 40505], Ho & Yang 2024:34 [ref. 41315]). Current status: Valid as Lestidiops ringens (Jordan & Gilbert 1880). Paralepididae. Distribution: North Pacific: southern Kuril Islands (Japan) north to Bering Sea, then south to Pacific coast of central Baja California (Mexico), including Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: marine.