velaini, Seriolella Sauvage [H.-E.] 1879:32, Pl. 1 (fig. 2) [Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale (Paris) v. 8; ref. 14281] St. Paul Island, southern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): MNHN 1884-0163. •Status uncertain, in Seriolella (Haedrich 1967:72 [ref. 5357]). •Synonym of Schedophilus ovalis (Cuvier 1833) -- (Stehmann & Lenz 1973:188 [ref. 21561], Haedrich 1986:845 [ref. 5659], Haedrich 1990:1012 [ref. 19509]). •Valid as Schedophilus velaini (Sauvage 1879) -- (Andrew et al. 1995:27 [ref. 38009], Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:xiii [ref. 21953], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:338 [ref. 25013], Francour & Javel 2003:57 [ref. 27025], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:425 [ref. 28072], Parin & Piotrovsky 2004:S44 [ref. 28443], Hoese & Bray 2006:1791 [ref. 29000], Last et al. 2013:462 [ref. 32465], Wirtz et al. 2014:11 [ref. 33516] with question, Duffy & Ahyong 2015:119 [ref. 36167], Haedrich in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2918 [ref. 34618], Brown et al. 2019:173 [ref. 36444], Sutton et al. 2020:257 [ref. 37832], Fermon et al. 2022:209 [ref. 39448] possible, Anderson 2022:315 [ref. 40210], Carvalho-Filho 2023:263 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Schedophilus velaini (Sauvage 1879). Centrolophidae. Distribution: Southern circumglobal. Habitat: marine.