robustus, Melamphaes Günther [A.] 1887:29 [Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger v. 22 (pt 57); ref. 2013] Mid-Atlantic, southwest of Sierra Leone, Challenger station 106, depth 1850 fathoms. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1887.12.7.10. •Valid as Scopeloberyx robustus (Günther 1887) -- (Maul 1973:346 [ref. 7171], Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:110 [ref. 6441], Maul in Whitehead et al. 1986:763 [ref. 13676], Ebeling 1986:430 [ref. 5651], Pequeño 1989:53 [ref. 14125], Maul 1990:617 [ref. 17237], Kotlyar 1996:276 [ref. 23292], Santos et al. 1997:70 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:77 [ref. 24952], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:977 [ref. 23897], Parin & Kotlyar 1998:558 [ref. 24683], Moore & Paxton 1999:2202 [ref. 24787], Nakabo 2000:479 [ref. 25086], Paxton & Moore in Randall & Lim 2000:600 [ref. 25122], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:25 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:320 [ref. 25968], Shinohara et al. 2001:310 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:479 [ref. 26001], Moore 2003:1163 [ref. 27002], Moore et al. 2003:218 [ref. 27076], Kotlyar 2004:6 [ref. 27590], Savinykh & Tuponogov 2004:138 [ref. 27628], Kotlyar 2004:582 [ref. 27867], Kotlyar 2005:31 [ref. 28178], Love et al. 2005:68 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:300 [ref. 28379], Shinohara et al. 2005:421 [ref. 28370], Møller et al. 2010:48 [ref. 31169], Fricke et al. 2011:371 [ref. 31242], Mincarone et al. 2014:1553 [ref. 33546], Afonso et al. 2016:39, 274 [ref. 36199], Fourriére et al. 2016:457 [ref. 34668], Moore 2016:2165 [ref. 34570], Carneiro et al. 2019:152 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:245 [ref. 37832], Love et al. 2021:99 [ref. 39279], Fermon et al. 2022:202 [ref. 39448], Page et al. 2023:105 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Scopeloberyx robustus (Günther 1887). Melamphaidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through cold temperate seas. Habitat: marine.