mizolepis, Scopelus Günther [A.] 1878:185 [18] [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 5) v. 2 (nos 7/8/9)(art. 2/22/28); ref. 2010] South of New Guinea off Aru Island; Molucca Islands, Indonesia, Arafura Sea, western Pacific, 5°41'S, 134°04'30"E, Challenger station 191, depth 800 fathoms. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1887.12.7.9. On p. 18 of separate. See also Günther 1887:28 [ref. 2013]. •Valid as Scopelus mizolepis (Günther 1878), subspecies mizolepis (Günther 1878) -- (Moore & Paxton 1999:2202 [ref. 24787], Nakabo 2000:477 [ref. 25086], Nakabo 2002:477 [ref. 26001], Moore 2003:1163 [ref. 27002], Moore et al. 2003:218 [ref. 27076], Kotlyar 2004:7 [ref. 27590], Bray 2008:411 [ref. 30620], Fricke et al. 2011:371 [ref. 31242], Mincarone et al. 2014:1554 [ref. 33546], Kimura et al. 2019:6 [ref. 37790], Reiner 2019:141 [ref. 38139]). •Valid as Scopelogadus mizolepis (Günther 1878) -- (Ebeling & Weed 1963:15 [ref. 4616], Yamakawa in Okamura et al. 1982:201, 363 [ref. 8256], Uyeno & Sato in Uyeno et al. 1983:278 [ref. 14275], Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:110 [ref. 6441], Ebeling 1986:431 [ref. 5651], Peden & Jamieson 1988:492 [ref. 12864], Paxton et al. 1989:372 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:53 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:156 [ref. 24556], McAllister 1990:131 [ref. 14674], Maul 1990:618 [ref. 17237], Kotlyar 1996:276 [ref. 23292], Santos et al. 1997:70 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:77 [ref. 24952], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:979 [ref. 23897], Porteiro et al. 1999:14 [ref. 24203], Paxton & Moore in Randall & Lim 2000:600 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:25 [ref. 25847], Love et al. 2005:68 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:300 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:749 [ref. 28995], Costa & Mincarone 2010:354 [ref. 37483], Stewart & Bray 2015:990 [ref. 34276], Moore 2016:2165 [ref. 34570], Brown et al. 2019:162 [ref. 36444], Carneiro et al. 2019:153 [ref. 37250], Kotlyar 2020:3 [1] [ref. 38110], Sutton et al. 2020:246 [ref. 37832], Afonso et al. 2021:477 [ref. 38384], Kotlyar 2021:10 [ref. 38100], Kotlyar 2021:807 [ref. 38954], Eduardo et al. 2022:9 [ref. 39574], Fermon et al. 2022:202 [ref. 39448], Grove et al. 2022:17 [ref. 41326], Page et al. 2023:105 [ref. 40505], Reading & Horton 2023:15 [ref. 41317]). Current status: Valid as Scopelogadus mizolepis (Günther 1878). Melamphaidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical oceans (including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and South China Sea), but in eastern Pacific only at Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) and off Chile. Habitat: marine.
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