occa, Macrurus Goode [G. B.] & Bean [T. H.] 1885:595 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 8 (no. 543); ref. 1842] Gulf of Mexico, 28°34'00"N, 86°48'00"W, Albatross station 2396, depth 335 fathoms. Holotype (unique): USNM 37334. Original genus should have been Macrourus. Correct spelling of the genus is Coelorinchus. •Valid as Coelorhynchus occa (Goode & Bean 1885) -- (Marshall 1973:294 [ref. 7194], Geistdoerfer in Whitehead et al. 1986:656 [ref. 13676], Geistdoerfer 1990:549 [ref. 16195], Iwamoto in Cohen et al. 1990:176 [ref. 18936], Arruda 1997:67 [ref. 24952]). •Valid as Caelorinchus occa (Goode & Bean 1885) -- (Boschung 1992:75 [ref. 23239], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:775 [ref. 23897], Iwamoto & Ungaro 2002:27 [ref. 26049], Iwamoto 2003:987 [ref. 27010], Moore et al. 2003:209 [ref. 27076]). •Valid as Coelorinchus occa (Goode & Bean 1885) -- (Arai in Uyeno et al. 1983:213 [ref. 14275], Trunov 1984:355 [ref. 16285], McMillan & Iwamoto 2009:49 [ref. 30414], Melo et al. 2010:32 [ref. 30775], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:86 [ref. 37485], Iwamoto 2016:1984 [ref. 34585], Carneiro et al. 2019:133 [ref. 37250], Klautau et al. 2020:8 [ref. 37903], Prokofiev & Iwamoto 2020:268 [ref. 37882], Page et al. 2023:100 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Coelorinchus occa (Goode & Bean 1885). Macrouridae. Distribution: Western central Atlantic: Florida (U.S.A.) and Bermuda south to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico. Habitat: marine.