multistriatus, Diplospinus Maul [G. E.] 1948:42, Fig. 17 [Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal No. 3 (art. 6); ref. 2916] Off Madeira (stomach content). Holotype: MMF 3063. Paratypes: BMNH 1953.10.28.1 (1); MMF 3064-69 (6). •Valid as Diplospinus multistriatus Maul 1948 -- (Parin & Bekker 1973:457 [ref. 7206], Nakamura in Okamura et al. 1982:261, 388 [ref. 8256], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:267 [ref. 9277], Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984:227 [ref. 6441], Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986:968 [ref. 13676], Nakamura 1986:826 [ref. 5696], Pequeño 1989:66 [ref. 14125], Parin 1990:965 [ref. 19382], Nakamura & Parin 1993:24 [ref. 21769], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:168 [ref. 25472], Nakamura in Fischer et al. 1995:1109 [ref. 22829], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:392 [ref. 24555], Nakabo 2000:1339 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:45 [ref. 25847], Nakamura & Parin 2001:3705 [ref. 26304], Nakabo 2002:1339 [ref. 26193], Moore et al. 2003:229 [ref. 27076], Parin & Nakamura 2003:1816 [ref. 27115], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:101 [ref. 27192], Roa-Varón et al. 2003:18 [ref. 27814], Randall et al. 2004:31 [ref. 27624], Nelson et al. 2004:175 [ref. 27807], Savinykh et al. 2004:658 [ref. 27937], Love et al. 2005:165 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:499 [ref. 28379], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:755 [ref. 28815], Bray & Hoese 2006:1754 [ref. 29049], Page et al. 2013:180 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:508 [ref. 33547], Parin & Nakamura in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2877 [ref. 34618], Kells et al. 2016:351 [ref. 35888], Carneiro et al. 2019:162 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:258 [ref. 37832], Love et al. 2021:209 [ref. 39279], Fermon et al. 2022:215 [ref. 39448] possible, Heemstra 2022:255 [ref. 40162], Carvalho-Filho 2023:246 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Diplospinus multistriatus Maul 1948. Gempylidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through warm temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea). Habitat: marine.