mirabilis, Paralepis Ege [V.] 1933:228 [Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, Kjøbenhavn v. 94; ref. 1186] Sulawesi Sea, western Pacific, 4°03'N, 123°26'E, Dana station 3683, depth about 1000 meters (2000 meters wire out). Holotype (unique): ZMUC (lost). Type catalog: Post 1972:142 [ref. 20860], Nielsen 1974:34 [ref. 9588]. •Valid as Lestidiops mirabilis (Ege 1933) -- (Fujii in Uyeno et al. 1983:193 [ref. 14275], Paxton & Niem 1999:1949 [ref. 24746], Nakabo 2000:368 [ref. 25086], Paxton in Randall & Lim 2000:592 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2002:368 [ref. 26001], Menezes et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:50 [ref. 27192], Thompson 2003:934 [ref. 27003], Fukui & Ozawa 2004:293 [ref. 28076], Shinohara et al. 2005:409 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:204 [ref. 28379], Fricke et al. 2011:360 [ref. 31242], Stewart 2015:586 [ref. 34254], Fricke et al. 2018:73 [ref. 35805], Sutton et al. 2020:143 [ref. 37832], Ho & Lin 2023:118 [ref. 40241], Page et al. 2023:92 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Lestidiops mirabilis (Ege 1933). Paralepididae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas, but not in eastern Atlantic and eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.