leptolepis, Coryphaenoides Günther [A.] 1877:441 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 4) v. 20 (no. 119) (art. 56); ref. 2009] Off Pernambuco, coasts of Brazil, Challenger station 122, depth 350 fathoms. Lectotype: BMNH 1887.12.7.109. Paralectotypes: BMNH 1887.12.7.111 (1) Yokohama, BMNH 1887.12.7.113 (1) and BMNH 1887.12.7.132 (1) Mid-Pacific. The original description was based on specimens from three localities; Günther 1887:144 [ref. 2013] restricted the species to the specimen from off Brazil, allocating the other specimens to (and types of) Macrurus liocephalus Günther 1887; this is not regarded as lectotype designation, lectotype designation dates to Marshall 1973:590 [ref. 6965]. •Valid as Chalinura leptolepis (Günther 1877) -- (Marshall 1973:297 [ref. 7194], Geistdoerfer in Whitehead et al. 1986:652 [ref. 13676], Geistdoerfer 1990:546 [ref. 16195], Santos et al. 1997:55 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:66 [ref. 24952]). •Valid as Coryphaenoides leptolepis Günther 1877 -- (Iwamoto & Stein 1974:42 [ref. 7509], Matarese et al. 1989:206 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:122 [ref. 14674], Iwamoto in Cohen et al. 1990:201 [ref. 18936], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:274 [ref. 25968], Iwamoto 2003:987 [ref. 27010], Moore et al. 2003:209 [ref. 27076], Love et al. 2005:54 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:250 [ref. 28379], Costa & Mincarone 2010:354 [ref. 37483], Melo et al. 2010:33 [ref. 30775] as cf. leptolepis, Iwamoto 2016:1980 [ref. 34585], Quattrini et al. 2017:7 [ref. 35235], Burton & Lea 2019:49 [ref. 37205], Carneiro et al. 2019:134 [ref. 37250], Nakayama 2020:167 [ref. 37888], Love et al. 2021:77 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:101 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Coryphaenoides leptolepis Günther 1877. Macrouridae. Distribution: Circumglobal: Atlantic, North Pacific and Indian Ocean. Habitat: marine.