aurolaternatum, Myctophum Garman [S.] 1899:264, Pl. 55 (fig. 3) [Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 24; ref. 1540] Off Malpelo-Culpepper Islands, eastern Pacific, 6°21'N, 80°41'W, Albatross station 3382, surface. Syntypes: (25) MCZ 28494 (3), 35191 (1); ?USNM 120276 [ex MCZ 28495] (4); YPM 3704 [ex MCZ 28494] (1). Type catalog: Moore & Boardman 1991:20 [ref. 16741]. •Valid as Myctophum aurolaternatum Garman 1899 -- (Paxton 1979:16 [ref. 6440], Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:66 [ref. 6441], Hulley 1986:313 [ref. 5672], Pequeño 1989:38 [ref. 14125], Paxton et al. in Fischer et al. 1995:1321 [ref. 22830], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:166 [ref. 24555], Paxton & Hulley 1999:1963 [ref. 24748], Nakabo 2000:384 [ref. 25086], Paxton & Hulley in Randall & Lim 2000:594 [ref. 25122], Wang & Chen 2001:116 [ref. 25464], Shinohara et al. 2001:301 [ref. 25995], Chen 2002:134 [ref. 26587], Nakabo 2002:384 [ref. 26001], Love et al. 2005:45 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:228 [ref. 28379], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:256 [ref. 28944], Fourriére et al. 2016:455 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:607 [ref. 34923], Love et al. 2021:70 [ref. 39279], Grove et al. 2022:17 [ref. 41326], Page et al. 2023:97 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Myctophum aurolaternatum Garman 1899. Myctophidae: Myctophinae. Distribution: Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia; eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Chile, including Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.