laternatum, Myctophum Garman [S.] 1899:267, Pl. 56 (fig. 1) [Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 24; ref. 1540] Off Mexico and Central America [eastern Pacific], 7°06'-27°39'40"N, 79°48'-111°00'30"W, Albatross station 3388, 3414, 3437, depth surface-1168 fathoms. Syntypes: MCZ 28492 (7), 35186 (2), 35188 (1), 41788 (1); YPM 3703 [ex MCZ 28492] (1). Type catalog: Moore & Boardman 1991:20 [ref. 16741]. •Valid as Diogenys laternatus (Garman 1899) -- (authors). •Valid as Diogenichthys laternatus (Garman 1899) -- (Paxton 1979:10 [ref. 6440], Pequeño 1989:37 [ref. 14125], Paxton et al. in Fischer et al. 1995:1320 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:233 [ref. 24545], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:165 [ref. 24555], Paxton & Hulley 1999:1963 [ref. 24748], Paxton & Hulley in Randall & Lim 2000:593 [ref. 25122], Chen 2002:119 [ref. 26587], Nelson et al. 2004:88 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:44 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:221 [ref. 28379], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:255 [ref. 28944], Page et al. 2013:90 [ref. 32708], Fourriére et al. 2016:454 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:606 [ref. 34923], Carneiro et al. 2019:119 [ref. 37250], Love et al. 2021:68 [ref. 39279], Grove et al. 2022:17 [ref. 41326], Page et al. 2023:95 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Diogenichthys laternatus (Garman 1899). Myctophidae: Myctophinae. Distribution: Central Pacific: Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and equatorial Pacific from 170°W eastward; eastern Pacific: California (U.S.A.) south to Chile, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.