speciosus, Paralepis Bellotti [C.] 1878:54, 57, Fig. [Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali di Milano v. 20 (fasc. 1); ref. 16778] Off Nice, Département des Alpes-Maritimes, France, northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes or holotype: MSNM (1, destroyed in 1943) Nice. Bellotti specimen: MNHN 1899-0243 (1) Messina. Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1950:10 [ref. 19576], Post 1972:144 [ref. 20860], Conci & Michelangeli 1974:219 [ref. 21560]. •Synonym of Paralepis coregonoides Risso 1820 -- (Post 1987:120 [ref. 6225], Post 1990:381 [ref. 15233]). •Valid as Paralepis speciosa Bellotti 1878 -- (Post 1973:205 [ref. 7182], Post in Whitehead et al. 1984:506 [ref. 13675], Scott & Scott 1988:196 [ref. 25518], Galil & Goren 1994:49 [ref. 23163], Santos et al. 1997:42 [ref. 23531], Golani 2005:23 [ref. 37112], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:24 [ref. 36649], Goren & Galil 2015:517 [ref. 33910], Carneiro et al. 2019:111 [ref. 37250], Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:34 [ref. 37828], Kovačić et al. 2020:15 [ref. 37519], Golani 2021:24 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:26 [ref. 39014]). Current status: Valid as Paralepis speciosa Bellotti 1878. Paralepididae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; North Atlantic. Habitat: marine.