subasper, Scopelus Günther [A.] 1864:411 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 5; ref. 1974] South of Australia, 43°30'S, 123°E. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1845.8.5.45. •Valid as Electrona subasper (Günther 1864) -- (Paxton 1979:10 [ref. 6440], Hulley 1986:298 [ref. 5672], Paxton et al. 1989:261 [ref. 12442]). •Valid as Electrona subaspera (Günther 1864) -- (Pequeño 1989:37 [ref. 14125], Fujii & Saito in Amaoka et al. 1990:139 [ref. 16024], Hulley 1990:152 [ref. 21685], Andrew et al. 1995:12 [ref. 38009], Duhamel et al. 2005:178 [ref. 32059], Paxton et al. 2006:519 [ref. 28994], Paxton & Bray 2008:279 [ref. 30633], Robertson & Clements 2015:652 [ref. 34257], Nión et al. 2016:38 [ref. 35565], Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:64 [ref. 37828]). Current status: Valid as Electrona subaspera (Günther 1864). Myctophidae: Myctophinae. Distribution: Southern circumglobal. Habitat: marine.