hyoproroides, Leptocephalus Strömman [P. H.] 1896:39, Pl. 4 (figs. 5-6) [Leptocephalids in the University Zoological Museum at Upsala; ref. 4294] Central North Atlantic, north of the Bahamas, 27°N, 73°W. Holotype (unique): ZMUU 702. Type catalog: Wallin 1996:61 [ref. 32133]. •Valid as Kaupichthys hyoproroides (Strömman 1896) -- (Asano in Masuda et al. 1984:22 [ref. 6441], Castle 1986:187 [ref. 5644], Robins & Ray 1986:56 [ref. 23100], Paxton et al. 1989:138 [ref. 12442], Smith 1989:88 [ref. 13285], Smith 1989:934 [ref. 13285], Winterbottom et al. 1989:6 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:33 [ref. 15987], Quéro & Saldanha 1995:64 [ref. 22017], Fricke 1999:39 [ref. 24106], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:130 [ref. 25013], Nakabo 2000:194 [ref. 25086], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:148 [ref. 27754], Hutchins 2001:16 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:194 [ref. 26001], Collette et al. 2003:98 [ref. 26784], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:32 [ref. 27192], Smith 2003:698 [ref. 26989], Smith et al. 2003:9 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:60 [ref. 27807], Mundy 2005:111 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:242 [ref. 28994] restricted to Atlantic, Shao et al. 2008:237 [ref. 29952], Fricke et al. 2009:14 [ref. 30213], Fricke et al. 2011:349 [ref. 31242], Page et al. 2013:60 [ref. 32708], Fricke et al. 2014:17 [ref. 33932], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:23 [ref. 33341], Pinheiro et al. 2015:4 [ref. 34324], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:74 [ref. 38844], Tighe 2022:81 [ref. 39683], Carvalho-Filho 2023:49 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:53 [ref. 40505], Fricke et al. 2024:119 [ref. 41622]). Current status: Valid as Kaupichthys hyoproroides (Strömman 1896). Chlopsidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: including Caribbean Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Saint Brandon's Shoals and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.