nigra, Brotulotaenia Parr [A. E.] 1933:50, Fig. 19 (bottom) [Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection Yale University v. 3 (art. 6); ref. 3373] Turks Island Passage, West Indies, 21°30'N, 71°11'W, 8000 feet wire out. Holotype (unique): YPM 2855. Genus often misspelled Brotulataenia. •Valid as Brotulotaenia nigra Parr 1933 -- (Nielsen 1973:550 [ref. 6885], Cohen 1974:143 [ref. 6890], Nielsen in Whitehead et al. 1986:1162 [ref. 13677], Paxton et al. 1989:311 [ref. 12442], Machida in Amaoka et al. 1990:196 [ref. 16024], Machida et al. 1997:423 [ref. 23365], Nielsen & Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999:26 [ref. 24448], Hutchins 2001:23 [ref. 25847], Nielsen & Robins 2003:967 [ref. 27008], Okuyama & Kato 2002:160 [ref. 27033], Moore et al. 2003:206 [ref. 27076], Fahay & Nielsen 2003:210 [ref. 27217], Garrido-Linares & Acero P. 2006:292 [ref. 28946], Hoese et al. 2006:558 [ref. 29051], Nielsen & Møller 2015:716 [ref. 34259], Nielsen 2016:1950 [ref. 34583], Carneiro et al. 2019:158 [ref. 37250]). Current status: Valid as Brotulotaenia nigra Parr 1933. Ophidiidae: Brotulotaeniinae. Distribution: Circumglobal, but not in eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.