beanii, Melamphaes Günther [A.] 1887:29 [Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger v. 22 (pt 57); ref. 2013] Western North Atlantic. Syntypes: USNM 33378 (1), 33509 (1), 34835 (1). Text unclear, but regarded as a replacement name for Plectromus crassiceps Bean 1885, secondarily preoccupied by Scopelus crassiceps Günther 1878 when both are placed in Melamphaes. •Valid as Scopelogadus beanii (Günther 1887) [sometimes as beani] -- (Ebeling & Weed 1963:24 [ref. 4616], Maul 1973:344 [ref. 7171], Maul in Whitehead et al. 1986:765 [ref. 13676], Ebeling 1986:431 [ref. 5651], Scott & Scott 1988:321 [ref. 25518], Paxton et al. 1989:372 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:53 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:156 [ref. 24556], McAllister 1990:131 [ref. 14674] as beani, Maul 1990:618 [ref. 17237], Kotlyar 1996:276 [ref. 23292], Santos et al. 1997:70 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:77 [ref. 24952], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:978 [ref. 23897], Porteiro et al. 1999:41 [ref. 24203], Moore 2003:1163 [ref. 27002], Moore et al. 2003:218 [ref. 27076], Paxton et al. 2006:749 [ref. 28995], Bray 2008:411 [ref. 30620], Møller et al. 2010:48 [ref. 31169] as beani, Stewart & Bray 2015:989 [ref. 34276], Moore 2016:2165 [ref. 34570], Brown et al. 2019:162 [ref. 36444], Carneiro et al. 2019:153 [ref. 37250], Iglésias et al. 2019:280 [ref. 37098], Kotlyar 2019:508[642] [ref. 37920], Sutton et al. 2020:246 [ref. 37832], Kotlyar 2021:807 [ref. 38954], Fermon et al. 2022:202 [ref. 39448], Page et al. 2023:105 [ref. 40505]). Replacement Name. Current status: Valid as Scopelogadus beanii (Günther 1887). Melamphaidae. Distribution: Southern circumglobal; Atlantic between 65°N and 40°S, Indian and Pacific oceans between 28° and 47°S. Habitat: marine.