tenuiforme, Myctophum (Lampanyctus) Brauer [A.] 1906:243, Fig. 160 [Die Tiefsee-Fische v. 15; ref. 632] Between Seychelles and Zanzibar (Tanzaqnia) [ca. 71 kilometers northeast of Eagle Island, Amirante Islands, Seychelles, western Indian Ocean], 4°34'08"S, 53°42'08"E, Valdivia station 235. Holotype (unique): ZMB 17620. •Valid as Lampanyctus tenuiformis (Brauer 1906) -- (Paxton 1979:13 [ref. 6440], Fujii in Okamura et al. 1982:111, 341 [ref. 8256], Fujii in Uyeno et al. 1983:185 [ref. 14275], Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:70 [ref. 6441], Hulley 1986:309 [ref. 5672], Hulley 1990:445 [ref. 15273], Paxton et al. in Fischer et al. 1995:1320 [ref. 22830], Shinohara et al. 1996:166 [ref. 26605], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:661 [ref. 23897], Paxton & Hulley 1999:1963 [ref. 24748], Nakabo 2000:391 [ref. 25086], Paxton & Hulley in Randall & Lim 2000:594 [ref. 25122], Wang & Chen 2001:115 [ref. 25464], Chen 2002:180 [ref. 26587], Nakabo 2002:391 [ref. 26001], Santos et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:55 [ref. 27192] as tenuiformes, Hartel & Craddock 2003:951 [ref. 27005], Moore et al. 2003:201 [ref. 27076], Love et al. 2005:45 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:226 [ref. 28379], Shinohara et al. 2005:412 [ref. 28370], Parin et al. 2014:158 [ref. 33547], Robertson & Clements 2015:665 [ref. 34257], Hulley 2016:1910 [ref. 34576], Burton & Lea 2019:46 [ref. 37205], Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:50 [ref. 37828], Klautau et al. 2020:8 [ref. 37903], Sutton et al. 2020:204 [ref. 37832], Love et al. 2021:69 [ref. 39279], Eduardo et al. 2022:8 [ref. 39574], Fermon et al. 2022:189 [ref. 39448], Grove et al. 2022:17 [ref. 41326], Page et al. 2023:97 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Lampanyctus tenuiformis (Brauer 1906). Myctophidae: Lampanyctinae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical to warm temperate oceans. Habitat: marine.