grallator, Benthosaurus Goode [G. B.] & Bean [T. H.] 1886:168 [Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 12 (no. 5); ref. 1844] Gulf of Mexico off northern Florida, 24°33'N, 84°23'W, depth 1850 fathoms; off New Jersey, U.S.A., western North Atlantic, 39°03'15"N, 70°50'45"W, depth 1537 fathoms. Syntypes: MCZ 27924 (1); plus one of the following -- USNM 35651 (1), 44675 (1). •Valid as Bathypterois grallator (Goode & Bean 1886) -- (Nielsen 1973:165 [ref. 6885], Sulak 1977:77 [ref. 4299], Sulak in Whitehead et al. 1984:416 [ref. 13675], Shcherbachev et al. 1989:170 [ref. 36134], Sulak 1990:355 [ref. 15106], Jones & Sulak 1990:254 [ref. 20703], Chave & Mundy 1994:367 [ref. 22375], Santos et al. 1997:39 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:42 [ref. 24952], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:561 [ref. 23897], Paxton & Niem 1999:1924 [ref. 24746], Pakhorukov 2001:378 [ref. 25409], Hutchins 2001:21 [ref. 25847], Thompson 2003:918 [ref. 27003], Moore et al. 2003:193 [ref. 27076], Mundy 2005:195 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:485 [ref. 28996], Franco et al. 2009:802 [ref. 32442], Costa & Mincarone 2010:318 [ref. 37483], Psomadakis et al. 2012:16 [ref. 33457], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:70 [ref. 37485], Russell 2016:1834 [ref. 34572], Vieira et al. 2016:[5] [ref. 34869], Fricke et al. 2018:72 [ref. 35805], Carneiro et al. 2019:106 [ref. 37250], Koeda et al. 2021:5 [ref. 38857], Fermon et al. 2022:181 [ref. 39448], Page et al. 2023:90 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bathypterois grallator (Goode & Bean 1886). Ipnopidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas, except southeastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.