abyssale, Dysomma Kamohara [T.] 1938:12, Fig. 3 [On the offshore bottom-fishes of Prov. Tosa; ref. 2551] Sagami Sea, Japan. Neotype: FMNH 76869. Type catalog: Kamohara 1961:2 [ref. 19282] as original type missing, Ibarra & Stewart 1987:33 [ref. 12367]. Neotype designated by Robins & Robins 1976:256 [ref. 3784]. •Valid as Meadia abyssalis (Kamohara 1938) -- (Blache 1975:805 [ref. 41463], Ida in Okamura et al. 1982:59, 317 [ref. 8256], Asano in Masuda et al. 1984:27 [ref. 6441], Machida in Okamura & Kitajima 1984:81, 315 [ref. 8057] as abyssale, Robins & Robins 1989:240 [ref. 13287], Mok et al. 1991:44 [ref. 19973], Quéro & Saldanha 1995:69 [ref. 22017], Fricke 1999:60 [ref. 24106], Smith 1999:1661 [ref. 24661], Nakabo 2000:213 [ref. 25086], Chen & Mok 2001:79 [ref. 25465] as abyssale, Shinohara et al. 2001:292 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:213 [ref. 26001], Karmovskaya 2003:440 [ref. 27168], Shinohara et al. 2005:400 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:129 [ref. 28379], Melo 2007:315 [ref. 29141], Fricke et al. 2009:18 [ref. 30213], Fricke et al. 2011:351 [ref. 31242], Shinohara et al. 2014:236 [ref. 33330], Ho et al. 2015:179 [ref. 34130], Smith & Stewart 2015:245 [ref. 34234], Koeda et al. 2021:5 [ref. 38857], Ramos-Castro et al. 2021:525 [ref. 38842], Vo et al. 2021:185 [ref. 38239], Eudeline 2022:157 [ref. 39191], Tighe et al. 2024:53 [ref. 41546]). Current status: Valid as Meadia abyssalis (Kamohara 1938). Synaphobranchidae: Ilyophinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Mayotte (France) and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hancock Seamount, Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan, south to New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.