sphyrenoides, Paralepis Risso [A.] 1820:254 [Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d'Histoire Naturelle v. 91; ref. 18636] Nice, France, northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Holotype (unique): Apparently lost. Type catalog: Post 1972:144 [ref. 20860]. Spelled sphyraenoides in Risso 1827:473 [ref. 3757]. •Valid as Lestidiops sphyrenoides (Risso 1820) -- (Post 1973:205 [ref. 7182], Post in Whitehead et al. 1984:494 [ref. 13675], Post 1990:376 [ref. 15233], Santos et al. 1997:41 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:52 [ref. 24952], Porteiro et al. 1999:32 [ref. 24203], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:44 [ref. 26753], Fukui & Ozawa 2004:293 [ref. 28076], Golani 2005:23 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:59 [ref. 29533], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:24 [ref. 36649], Russell 2016:1847 [ref. 34572], Carneiro et al. 2019:110 [ref. 37250], Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:30 [ref. 37828] as sphyraenoides, Bariche & Fricke 2020:40 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:46 [ref. 37519], Sutton et al. 2020:144 [ref. 37832], Bañón & Maño 2021:55 [ref. 38883], Dalyan et al. 2021:7 [ref. 38892], Golani 2021:24 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:26 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:184 [ref. 39448], Zacchetti et al. in Grech et al. 2023:408 [ref. 40778]). Current status: Valid as Lestidiops sphyrenoides (Risso 1820). Paralepididae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic. Habitat: marine.