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Species in the genus Aphyonus: [ 2 ] records

gelatinosus, Aphyonus Günther [A.] 1878:22 [6] [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 5) v. 2 (nos 7/8/9)(art. 2/22/28); ref. 2010] Off Cape York, Queensland, Australia, Challenger station 184, 12°08'S, 145°10'E, depth 1400 fathoms [2550 meters]. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1887.12.7.59. On p. 6 of separate. See also Günther 1887:120, Pl. 26 (fig. A) [ref. 2013]. •Valid as Aphyonus gelatinosus Günther 1878 -- (Nielsen 1969:15 [ref. 3195], Cohen & Nielsen 1978:61 [ref. 881], Nielsen in Whitehead et al. 1986:1168 [ref. 13677], Nielsen 1986:357 [ref. 5699], Paxton et al. 1989:318 [ref. 12442], Nielsen 1990:576 [ref. 16246], Nielsen 1997:78 [ref. 23255], Santos et al. 1997:53 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:110 [ref. 24952], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:739 [ref. 23897], Nielsen & Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999:138 [ref. 24448], Nielsen 1999:1984 [ref. 24753], Nielsen 2003:976 [ref. 27009], Garrido-Linares & Acero P. 2006:288 [ref. 28946], Bray et al. 2006:576 [ref. 29063], Franco et al. 2007:909 [ref. 29254], Costa & Mincarone 2010:340 [ref. 37483], Fricke et al. 2011:367 [ref. 31242], Ohashi et al. 2013:111 [ref. 33255], Nielsen 2015:324 [ref. 34016], Nielsen & Møller 2015:737 [ref. 34259], Møller et al. 2016:Appendix A [ref. 34432] in Bythitidae, Nielsen 2016:1956 [ref. 34583], Fricke et al. 2018:85 [ref. 35805], Carneiro et al. 2019:160 [ref. 37250], Nielsen et al. 2019:557 [ref. 36568]). Current status: Valid as Aphyonus gelatinosus Günther 1878. Bythitidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.

mollis, Aphyonus Goode [G. B.] & Bean [T. H.] 1886:163 [Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 12 (no. 5); ref. 1844] Gulf of Mexico off Cuba, 24°36'N, 84°05'W, depth 955 fathoms. Holotype (unique): MCZ 28002. •Synonym of Aphyonus gelatinosus Günther 1878 -- (Nielsen 1969:15 [ref. 3195], Cohen & Nielsen 1978:61 [ref. 881], Nielsen 1990:576 [ref. 16246], Nielsen & Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999:138 [ref. 24448], Ohashi et al. 2013:112 [ref. 33255], Nielsen 2015:324 [ref. 34016]). Current status: Synonym of Aphyonus gelatinosus Günther 1878. Bythitidae. Habitat: marine.