pygmaea, Cyclothone microdon var. Jespersen [P.] & Tåning [A. V.] 1926:7, 54, Figs. 5, 6 (bottom) [Report on the Danish Oceanographical Expeditions 1908-1910 to the Mediterranean and Adjacent Seas v. 2 (Biology); ref. 15592] Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: many. •Synonym of Cyclothone microdon (Günther 1878) -- (Witzell 1973:117 [ref. 7172]). •Valid as Cyclothone pygmaea Jespersen & Tåning 1926 -- (Badcock in Whitehead et al. 1984:294 [ref. 13675], Golani 1994:35 [ref. 23162], Galil & Goren 1994:50 [ref. 23163], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:41 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:20 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:57 [ref. 29533], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:22 [ref. 36649], Goren & Galil 2015:512 [ref. 33910], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:92 [ref. 36864], Kovačić et al. 2020:13 [ref. 37519], Golani 2021:22 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:23 [ref. 39014]). Current status: Valid as Cyclothone pygmaea Jespersen & Tåning 1926. Gonostomatidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea endemic. Habitat: marine.