wallacei, Congrina Castle [P. H. J.] 1968:709, Pl. 107 B; Fig. 1 (a-b) [Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University No. 33; ref. 7877] Off the mouth of Limpopo River, Mozambique, depth 480-500 meters. Holotype: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 620 [=8074]. Paratypes: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 8075 (1), 8076 [ex 621] (1). Additional material (2). •Valid as Rhechias wallacei (Castle 1968) -- (Castle 1986:165 [ref. 5644], Smith 1989:533 [ref. 13285], Quéro & Saldanha 1995:78 [ref. 22017], Fricke 1999:70 [ref. 24106]). •Synonym of Bathycongrus roosendaali (Weber & de Beaufort 1916) -- (Ben-Tuvia 1993:366 [ref. 21130]). •Valid as Bathycongrus wallacei (Castle 1968) -- (Castle 1995:710 [ref. 22123], Castle & Smith 1999:993 [ref. 25141], Karmovskaya & Smith 2008:35 [ref. 29972], Fricke et al. 2009:20 [ref. 30213], Karmovskaya 2009:145 [ref. 30139], Karmovskaya 2011:417 [ref. 31456], Ho et al. 2015:145 [ref. 34130], Fricke et al. 2018:49 [ref. 35805], Huang et al. 2018:116 [ref. 36041], Smith & Ho 2018:142 [ref. 36042], Ramos-Castro et al. 2021:515 [ref. 38842], Sakai et al. 2023:9 [ref. 40948]). Current status: Valid as Bathycongrus wallacei (Castle 1968). Congridae: Congrinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Natal (South Africa) to southern Mozambique, Madagascar and Réunion (western Mascarenes); Indonesia and Philippines north to Taiwan and southern Japan. Habitat: marine.