gillii, Bassogigas Goode [G. B.] & Bean [T. H.] 1896:328, Pl. 83 (fig. 291) [Special Bulletin U. S. National Museum No. 2; ref. 1848] Off Cape Henlopen, Delaware, U.S.A., 39°35'N, 70°54'W, Albatross station 2684, depth 1106 fathoms. Holotype (unique): USNM 39417. •Questionably valid as Bassogigas gillii Goode & Bean 1896 -- (Nielsen & Cohen 1986:345 [ref. 5700]). •Valid as Bassogigas gillii Goode & Bean 1896 -- (Nielsen 1980:18 [ref. 6926], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:707 [ref. 23897], Nielsen & Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999:54 [ref. 24448] as gilli, Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:59 [ref. 27192], Nielsen & Robins 2003:968 [ref. 27008], Moore et al. 2003:205 [ref. 27076], Garrido-Linares & Acero P. 2006:293 [ref. 28946], Mincarone et al. 2008:49 [ref. 29626], Costa & Mincarone 2010:330 [ref. 37483], Fricke et al. 2011:366 [ref. 31242], Nielsen & Møller 2011:785 [ref. 31447], Fricke et al. 2018:83 [ref. 35805], Koeda et al. 2021:5 [ref. 38857] as gilli, Carvalho-Filho 2023:79 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:108 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bassogigas gillii Goode & Bean 1896. Ophidiidae: Neobythitinae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, except for eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.