balbo, Scopelus Risso [A.] 1820:268, Pl. 10 (fig. 3) [Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino v. 25; ref. 15557] Nice, France, northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Holotype (unique): MNHN B-1034 (poor condition). Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1950:10 [ref. 19576]. See also Risso 1827:466 [ref. 3757]. •Valid as Evermannella balbo (Risso 1820) -- (Maul 1973:200 [ref. 7171], Johnson 1982:127 [ref. 5519], Johnson in Whitehead et al. 1984:491 [ref. 13675], Hulley 1986:280 [ref. 5672], Scott & Scott 1988:202 [ref. 25518], Paxton et al. 1989:249 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:34 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:111 [ref. 24556], McAllister 1990:102 [ref. 14674], Johnson 1990:390 [ref. 15266], Fujii in Amaoka et al. 1990:147 [ref. 16024], Swinney 1994:809 [ref. 22031], Santos et al. 1997:43 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:51 [ref. 24952], Porteiro et al. 1999:33 [ref. 24203], Figueiredo et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:51 [ref. 27192] with genus as Evermanella, Moore et al. 2003:197 [ref. 27076], Thompson 2003:937 [ref. 27003], Paxton et al. 2006:496 [ref. 28994], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:26 [ref. 36649] as Evermanella balboi, Arronte et al. 2012:649 [ref. 32044], Deval 2013:311 [ref. 33114], Ghedotti et al. 2014:312 [ref. 34482], Goren & Galil 2015:511 [ref. 33910], Stewart 2015:600 [ref. 34254], Russell 2016:1839 [ref. 34572], Fricke et al. 2018:72 [ref. 35805], Carneiro et al. 2019:112 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:93 [ref. 36864], Iglésias et al. 2019:280 [ref. 37098], Bariche & Fricke 2020:39 [ref. 37515], Iglésias et al. 2020:292 [ref. 37987], Kovačić et al. 2020:14 [ref. 37519], Sutton et al. 2020:133 [ref. 37832], Bañón et al. 2021:6 [ref. 40417], Kovačić et al. 2021:25 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:185 [ref. 39448], Page et al. 2023:93 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Evermannella balbo (Risso 1820). Evermannellidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas (including Mediterranean Sea). Habitat: marine.