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boops, Macrurus Garman [S.] 1899:202 [Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 24; ref. 1540] Gulf of Panama, 7°21'N, 79°35'W, Albatross station 3394, depth 511 fathoms. Lectotype: MCZ 28588. Paralectotypes: MCZ 18587 (1), 61903 [ex 28588] (2). Original genus should have been Macrourus. Originally as boöps. Lectotype selected by Iwamoto & Sazonov 1988:53 [ref. 6228]. •Valid as Coryphaenoides boops (Garman 1899) -- (Iwamoto & Sazonov 1988:53 [ref. 6228], Iwamoto in Cohen et al. 1990:201 [ref. 18936], Iwamoto & Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995:1261 [ref. 22830], Iwamoto & McCosker 2001:27 [ref. 25777], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:196 [ref. 28944], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:189 [ref. 30957], Grove et al. 2022:17 [ref. 41326]). Current status: Valid as Coryphaenoides boops (Garman 1899). Macrouridae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Ecuador south to Peru, including Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). IUCN (2024): Not Assessed. Habitat: marine.


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