oscitans, Poromitra Ebeling [A. W.] 1975:308, Fig. 1 [Copeia 1975 (no. 2); ref. 7105] Eastern Banda Sea, Indonesia, western Pacific, 5°28'S, 130°39'E, Dana station 3677(1), 0-5000 meters wire out. Holotype: ZMUC P41270 [? P41120]. Paratypes: IOM (1 lot), SIO (22 lots), USNM 168193 (1), ZMUC (14 lots). •Valid as Poromitra oscitans Ebeling 1975 -- (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:110 [ref. 6441], Ebeling 1986:430 [ref. 5651], Paulin et al. 1989:156 [ref. 24556], Kotlyar 1996:275 [ref. 23292], Moore & Paxton 1999:2202 [ref. 24787], Nakabo 2000:478 [ref. 25086], Paxton & Moore in Randall & Lim 2000:600 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2002:477 [ref. 26001], Kotlyar 2004:5 [ref. 27590], Love et al. 2005:68 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:299 [ref. 28379], Kotlyar 2009:567 [ref. 30590], Kotlyar 2010:243 [ref. 30796], Stewart & Bray 2015:987 [ref. 34276], Fourriére et al. 2016:457 [ref. 34668], Love et al. 2021:98 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:105 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Poromitra oscitans Ebeling 1975. Melamphaidae. Distribution: Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to Ogasawara Islands, waifs in New Zealand region; eastern Pacific: California (U.S.A.) south to Peru. Habitat: marine.