ventralis, Electrona Becker [V. E.] 1963:26, Fig. 5 [Voprosy Ikhtiologii v. 3 (no. 1); ref. 4155] South Atlanitc, 42°20'S, 39°07'W, depth 364-426 meters. Holotype: ZIN 36804. Paratypes: (1) not at ZIN. Type catalog: Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:80 [ref. 37828]. •Valid as Metelectrona ventralis (Becker 1963) -- (Hulley 1986:312 [ref. 5672], Paxton et al. 1989:266 [ref. 12442], Hulley 1990:166 [ref. 21685], Hutchins 2001:20 [ref. 25847], Duhamel et al. 2005:214 [ref. 32059], Paxton et al. 2006:525 [ref. 28994], Paxton & Bray 2008:271 [ref. 30633], Robertson & Clements 2015:669 [ref. 34257], Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:68 [ref. 37828], Sutton et al. 2020:161 [ref. 37832], Koerber 2024:42 [ref. 41215]). Current status: Valid as Metelectrona ventralis (Becker 1963). Myctophidae: Myctophinae. Distribution: Circumglobal in Southern Hemisphere. Habitat: marine.