multipunctatus, Scopelopsis Brauer [A.] 1906:146, Fig. 71 [Die Tiefsee-Fische v. 15; ref. 632] Off Cape of Good Hope, 33°23'04"S, 16°19'04"E, South Africa, Valdivia station 91, depth 2000 meters. Holotype (unique): ZMB 17560. •Valid as Scopelopsis multipunctatus Brauer 1906 -- (Paxton 1979:17 [ref. 6440], Hulley 1986:319 [ref. 5672], Paxton et al. 1989:268 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:38 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:115 [ref. 24556], Hulley 1990:461 [ref. 15273], Paxton & Hulley 1999:1964 [ref. 24748], Hutchins 2001:21 [ref. 25847], Santos et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:57 [ref. 27192], Paxton et al. 2006:529 [ref. 28994], Paxton & Bray 2008:293 [ref. 30633], Robertson & Clements 2015:677 [ref. 34257], Hulley 2016:1924 [ref. 34576], Nión et al. 2016:39 [ref. 35565], Carneiro et al. 2019:126 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:158 [ref. 37832], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:81 [ref. 41223], Koerber 2024:19 [ref. 41215]). Current status: Valid as Scopelopsis multipunctatus Brauer 1906. Myctophidae: Gymnoscopelinae. Distribution: Circumglobal in Southern Hemisphere:. Habitat: marine.