Gigantactis Brauer [A.] 1902:295 Fem. Gigantactis vanhoeffeni Brauer 1902. Type by monotypy. •Valid as Gigantactis Brauer 1902 -- (Maul 1973:675 [ref. 7171], Bertelsen et al. 1981:24 [ref. 5330], Bertelsen & Pietsch 1983:91 [ref. 5335], Amaoka in Masuda et al. 1984:106 [ref. 6441], Bertelsen in Whitehead et al. 1986:1406 [ref. 13677], Paxton et al. 1989:292 [ref. 12442], Pietsch 1999:2036 [ref. 24766], Anderson & Leslie 2001:23 [ref. 26165], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:311 [ref. 25968], Moore 2002:1144 [ref. 26514], Bertelsen & Pietsch 2002:958 [ref. 26506], Pietsch 2003:1068 [ref. 27014], Paxton et al. 2006:668 [ref. 28994], Pietsch 2008:388 [ref. 30637], Pietsch 2009:454 [ref. 30766], Kharin 2011:662 [ref. 31582], Parin et al. 2014:188 [ref. 33547], Stewart & Pietsch 2015:933 [ref. 34271], Anderson 2018:13 [ref. 36146], Fricke et al. 2018:92 [ref. 35805], Ho & Shao 2019:13 [ref. 37146]). Current status: Valid as Gigantactis Brauer 1902. Gigantactinidae.