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Species in the genus Promethichthys: [ 8 ] records

argenteus, Sygnathus Osbeck [P.] 1765:396 [Reise nach Ostindien und China; ref. 3311] Atlantic between Ascension Island and the Sargasso Sea at 10°06'N. No types known. Genus should have been Syngnathus. Gempylidae. Habitat: marine.

armatus, Dicrotus Günther [A.] 1860:349 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 2; ref. 1963] No locality. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1953.12.31.5. •Questionably a synonym of Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier 1832) -- (Parin & Bekker 1973:459 [ref. 7206], Parin 1990:969 [ref. 19382], Nakamura & Parin 1993:40 [ref. 21769]). Current status: Uncertain as Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier 1832). Gempylidae. Habitat: marine.

atlanticus, Prometheus Lowe [R. T.] 1838:78 [Transactions of the Zoological Society of London v. 2 (pt 3, art. 14); ref. 2831] Off Madeira. No types known. •Synonym of Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier 1832) -- (Parin & Bekker 1973:459 [ref. 7206], Parin 1990:969 [ref. 19382], Bray & Hoese 2006:1757 [ref. 29049]). Current status: Synonym of Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier 1832). Gempylidae. Habitat: marine.

ballieui, Thyrsites Sauvage [H.-E.] 1882:170 [Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 6; ref. 3894] Hawaiian Islands. Holotype: MNHN A-4296. •Synonym of Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier 1832) -- (Parin & Bekker 1973:459 [ref. 7206], Parin 1990:969 [ref. 19382] as ballieni, Nakamura & Parin 1993:40 [ref. 21769], Mundy 2005:501 [ref. 28379]). Current status: Synonym of Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier 1832). Gempylidae. Habitat: marine.

pacificus, Promethichthys Seale [A.] 1906:28, Fig. 9 [Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History v. 4 (no. 1); ref. 3999] Tahiti, Society Islands. Holotype (unique): BPBM 1358. •Synonym of Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier 1832) -- (Parin & Bekker 1973:459 [ref. 7206], Parin 1990:970 [ref. 19382], Nakamura & Parin 1993:40 [ref. 21769]). Current status: Synonym of Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier 1832). Gempylidae. Habitat: marine.

parvipinnis, Dicrotus Goode [G. B.] & Bean [T. H.] 1896:201, Pl. 57 (fig. 212) [Special Bulletin U. S. National Museum No. 2; ref. 1848] Gulf Stream, 34°39'15"N, 75°33'30"W. Holotype: USNM 39345. Paratypes: (2) USNM 44610 (1), 44611 (1). •Questionably a synonym of Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier 1832) -- (Parin & Bekker 1973:459 [ref. 7206], Parin 1990:970 [ref. 19382], Nakamura & Parin 1993:40 [ref. 21769]). Current status: Uncertain as Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier 1832). Gempylidae. Habitat: marine.

prometheus, Gempylus Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1832:213, Pl. 222 [Histoire naturelle des poissons; ref. 1000] Saint Helena Island, South Atlantic. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-5366. •Valid as Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier 1832) -- (Parin & Bekker 1973:459 [ref. 7206], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:251 [ref. 7348], Nakamura in Okamura et al. 1982:265, 389 [ref. 8256], Fujii in Uyeno et al. 1983:409 [ref. 14275], Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984:227 [ref. 6441], Machida in Okamura et al. 1985:539, 703 [ref. 8056], Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986:971 [ref. 13676], Pequeño 1989:67 [ref. 14125], Parin 1990:969 [ref. 19382], Cervigón 1992:323 [ref. 23827], Manilo 1992:24 [133] [ref. 39140], Nakamura & Parin 1993:40 [ref. 21769], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:169 [ref. 25472], Cervigón 1994:224 [ref. 24488], Shinohara et al. 1996:183 [ref. 26605], Roberts & Stewart 1997:138 [ref. 23233], Santos et al. 1997:105 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:98 [ref. 24952], Adam et al. 1998:13 [ref. 23610], Fricke 1999:558 [ref. 24106] as Prometichthys, Pakhorukov 1999:658 [ref. 24883], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:327 [ref. 25013], Allen 2000:94 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:1339 [ref. 25182], Randall & Earle 2000:20 [ref. 25806], Nakamura & Parin 2001:3706 [ref. 26304], Shinohara et al. 2001:332 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:1339 [ref. 26193], Moore et al. 2003:230 [ref. 27076], Parin & Nakamura 2003:1823 [ref. 27115], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S120 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:648 [ref. 27495] as Prometheichthys, Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:101 [ref. 27192], Randall et al. 2004:31 [ref. 27624], Shinohara et al. 2005:439 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:501 [ref. 28379], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:762 [ref. 28815], Bray & Hoese 2006:1756 [ref. 29049], Randall 2007:443 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:110 [ref. 30213], Shinohara et al. 2014:272 [ref. 33330], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:82 [ref. 33341], Wirtz et al. 2014:10 [ref. 33516], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:175 [ref. 37485], Parin & Nakamura in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2883 [ref. 34618], Vieira et al. 2016:[8] [ref. 34869], Motomura et al. 2017:209 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:360 [ref. 35805], Brown et al. 2019:172 [ref. 36444], Carneiro et al. 2019:163 [ref. 37250], Fricke et al. 2019:310 [ref. 36673], Reiner 2019:274 [ref. 38139], Guabiroba et al. 2020:703 [ref. 37571], Klautau et al. 2020:9 [ref. 37903], Sutton et al. 2020:260 [ref. 37832], Kim et al. 2021:212 [ref. 39117], Eduardo et al. 2022:10 [ref. 39574], Fermon et al. 2022:216 [ref. 39448], Heemstra 2022:258 [ref. 40162], Carvalho-Filho 2023:246 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier 1832). Gempylidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea). Habitat: marine.

solandri, Promethichthys Jordan [D. S.], Evermann [B. W.] & Tanaka [S.] 1927:653 [Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 4) v. 16 (no. 20); ref. 2454] Not an original description but treated as such by authors. •In the synonymy of Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier 1832) -- (Parin & Bekker 1973:459 [ref. 7206], Parin 1990:969 [ref. 19382]). Current status: Synonym of Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier 1832). Gempylidae.