paradoxus, Cubiceps Butler [J. L.] 1979:235, Fig. 9 [Bulletin of Marine Science v. 29 (no. 2); ref. 8841] Off Portuguese Bend, Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A. Holotype: LACM 37048-1. Paratypes: SFC J7210 (1); SIO 71-310 (1), 72-11 (1, missing). •Valid as Cubiceps paradoxus Butler 1979 -- (Ellis et al. 1988:174 [ref. 23110], Agafonova 1994:170 [ref. 22696], Haedrich in Fischer et al. 1995:1325 [ref. 22829], Parin 2003:S31 [ref. 28536], Nelson et al. 2004:177 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:170 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:511 [ref. 28379], Page et al. 2013:183 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:519 [ref. 33547], Haedrich in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2923 [ref. 34618], Sutton et al. 2020:265 [ref. 37832], Love et al. 2021:214 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:115 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Cubiceps paradoxus Butler 1979. Nomeidae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: off Mauritania; central Pacific: Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.); eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to Peru, including Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.