australis, Lampanyctus alatus Tåning [A. V.] 1932:145 [Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, Kjøbenhavn v. 94; ref. 5031] Off New Zealand, 41°47'S, 176°55'E, about 200 meters. Lectotype: ZMUC P2330216. Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:38 [ref. 9588]. Lectotype selected by Nafpaktitis 1973:44 [ref. 10436]. •Valid as Lampanyctus australis Tåning 1932 -- (Paxton 1979:14 [ref. 6440], Hulley 1986:307 [ref. 5672], Paxton et al. 1989:264 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:37 [ref. 14125], Hulley 1990:437 [ref. 15273], Hulley 1990:164 [ref. 21685], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:140 [ref. 25472], Hutchins 2001:20 [ref. 25847], Santos et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:55 [ref. 27192], Duhamel et al. 2005:399 [ref. 32059] with question, Paxton et al. 2006:523 [ref. 28994], Paxton & Bray 2008:287 [ref. 30633], Robertson & Clements 2015:661 [ref. 34257], Hulley 2016:1906 [ref. 34576], Nión et al. 2016:38 [ref. 35565] with author as (Tåning 1932), Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:47 [ref. 37828], Sutton et al. 2020:201 [ref. 37832], Koerber 2024:25 [ref. 41215]). Current status: Valid as Lampanyctus australis Tåning 1932. Myctophidae: Lampanyctinae. Distribution: Southern circumglobal. Habitat: marine.