macropus, Pteraclis Bellotti [C.] 1903:137 [2], Pl. 6 [Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali di Milano v. 42 (pt 2); ref. 15008] Yokohama, Japan, Kanagawa Prefecture, Tokyo Bay. MSNM (destroyed in 1943). Type catalog: Conci & Michelangeli 1974:219 [ref. 21560]. On p. 2 of separate. •Valid as Platyberyx macropus (Bellotti 1903) -- (Suzuki & Hosokawa 1994:4 [ref. 24339], Nakabo 2000:817 [ref. 25086], Nakabo 2002:817 [ref. 26001], Shinohara et al. 2011:49 [ref. 31715]). •Valid as Caristius macropus (Bellotti 1903) -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:214 [ref. 9277], Amaoka in Amaoka et al. 1983:129, 203 [ref. 8379], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:160 [ref. 6441], Matarese et al. 1989:490 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:150 [ref. 14674], Post 1990:765 [ref. 17242], Okamura & Miyahara in Okamura et al. 1995:186 [ref. 22531], Mukhametov & Volodin 1999:426 [ref. 24872], Balanov 2000:850 [ref. 25105], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:34 [ref. 25650], Shinohara et al. 2001:325 [ref. 25995], Paxton 2001:2837 [ref. 26097], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:655 [ref. 25968], Parin 2003:S9 [ref. 28536], Love et al. 2005:120 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:378 [ref. 28379], Csepp & Stevenson 2006:250 [ref. 40670], Trunov et al. 2006:465 [ref. 28740], Bray et al. 2006:1189 [ref. 29088], Tweddle & Anderson 2008:11 [ref. 29604], Britz & Hartel 2012:85 [ref. 32303], Stevenson & Kenaley 2013:429 [ref. 32920], Kukuev et al. 2013:543 [ref. 32928], Shinohara et al. 2014:262 [ref. 33330], Parin et al. 2014:366 [ref. 33547], Okamoto et al. 2014:28 [ref. 33659], Okamoto & Stevenson 2015:16 [ref. 33827], Burton & Lea 2019:76 [ref. 37205], Carneiro et al. 2019:260 [ref. 37250], Love et al. 2021:158 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:117 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Caristius macropus (Bellotti 1903). Caristiidae. Distribution: North Pacific: Japan north to southern Bering Sea, then Alaska (U.S.A.) south to Pacific coast of central Baja California (U.S.A.). Habitat: marine.