viridensis, Belonopterois Roule [L.] 1916:13 [Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique (Monaco) No. 320; ref. 3818] Southwest of Isla de Sal, Cape Verde Islands, station 1209, depth 1477 meters. Holotype: MOM 0091-0583. Type catalog: Belloc 1949:10 [ref. 21544]. See also Roule 1919:35, Pl. 1 (fig. 3) [ref. 19805]. •Valid as Bathypterois viridensis (Roule 1916) -- (Sulak 1977:80 [ref. 4299], Miyake & Aizawa in Uyeno et al. 1983:169 [ref. 14275], Sulak 1990:357 [ref. 15106], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:564 [ref. 23897], Ben-Tuvia et al. 2001:1285 [ref. 41445], Ben-Tuvia et al. 2003:282 [ref. 41557], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:48 [ref. 27192] dating to 1919, Moore et al. 2003:193 [ref. 27076], Thompson 2003:918 [ref. 27003], Franco et al. 2009:809 [ref. 32442], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:73 [ref. 37485], Russell 2016:1834 [ref. 34572], Klautau et al. 2020:7 [ref. 37903], Page et al. 2023:90 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bathypterois viridensis (Roule 1916). Ipnopidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: east coast of Florida (U.S.A.) south to Suriname; east coast of Brazil; including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Sierra Leone to Ghana, and Cape Verde Islands. IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.