kuronumai, Hymenocephalus Kamohara [T.] 1938:70, Fig. 40 [On the offshore bottom-fishes of Prov. Tosa; ref. 2551] Mimase fish market, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. Kamohara "neotype": BSKU 4333. Type catalog: Kamohara 1961:9 [ref. 19282]. "Neotype" designation: Kamohara 1961:9 [ref. 19282] but designation was not made in a revisory work and is invalid. Specimens from southwestern Pacific (see status) represent a species of Spicomacrurus -- see Iwamoto et al. 2011:513 [ref. 31434]. •Valid as Hymenogadus kuronumai (Kamohara 1938) -- (Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:94 [ref. 6441], Okamura in Okamura & Kitajima 1984:203, 359 [ref. 8057], Nakabo 2000:418 [ref. 25086], Nakabo 2002:418 [ref. 26001], Shinohara et al. 2005:418 [ref. 28370]). •Valid as Hymenocephalus kuronumai Kamohara 1938 -- (Iwamoto in Cohen et al. 1990:230 [ref. 18936], Iwamoto & Merrett 1997:518 [ref. 23710], Iwamoto & Williams 1999:176 [ref. 23875], Iwamoto 1999:1991 [ref. 24761], Merrett & Iwamoto 2000:757 [ref. 25037], Shinohara et al. 2001:305 [ref. 25995], Bray et al. 2006:595 [ref. 29065], Fricke et al. 2011:364 [ref. 31242]). •Valid as Spicomacrurus kuronumai Kamohara 1938 -- (Iwamoto et al. 2011:513 [ref. 31434], Schwarzhans 2014:21 [ref. 33586], Iwamoto et al. 2015:103 [ref. 35408], Nakayama 2020:278 [ref. 37888]). Current status: Valid as Spicomacrurus kuronumai (Kamohara 1938). Macrouridae. Distribution: Western North Pacific: Japan and Taiwan. Habitat: marine.