simus, Melamphaes Ebeling [A. W.] 1962:94, Fig. 34 [Dana Report No. 58; ref. 5896] South of Canary Islands [eastern Atlantic], 27°19'N, 16°41'W, Dana station D4010, depth about 350 meters (1000 meters wire out) over bottom depth of 3460 meters. Holotype: ZMUC P41204. Paratypes: BMNH 1930.1.12.977-980 (4); ?MCZ [ex Woods Hole] (1), NHMG 1431 (1); ZMUC P41205-220 (40); plus additional material. Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:60 [ref. 9588]. •Valid as Melamphaes simus Ebeling 1962 -- (Ebeling 1986:429 [ref. 5651], Maul 1973:343 [ref. 7171], Maul in Whitehead et al. 1986:759 [ref. 13676], Pequeño 1989:52 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:156 [ref. 24556], Maul 1990:614 [ref. 17237], Kotlyar 1996:274 [ref. 23292], Santos et al. 1997:69 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:76 [ref. 24952], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:971 [ref. 23897], Fricke 1999:124 [ref. 24106], Porteiro et al. 1999:41 [ref. 24203], Moore & Paxton 1999:2202 [ref. 24787], Paxton & Moore in Randall & Lim 2000:600 [ref. 25122], Moore 2003:1163 [ref. 27002], Moore et al. 2003:217 [ref. 27076], Kotlyar 2004:4 [ref. 27590], Love et al. 2005:68 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:298 [ref. 28379], Mincarone et al. 2014:1548 [ref. 33546], Stewart & Bray 2015:982 [ref. 34276], Kotlyar 2016:253 [ref. 34507], Moore 2016:2165 [ref. 34570], Kotlyar 2016:389 [ref. 35038], Carneiro et al. 2019:151 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:239 [ref. 37832], Fermon et al. 2022:202 [ref. 39448], Page et al. 2023:105 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Melamphaes simus Ebeling 1962. Melamphaidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.