janae, Melamphaes Ebeling [A. W.] 1962:81, Fig. 30 [Dana Report No. 58; ref. 5896] Eastern tropical Pacific, off Colombia, 4°04'N, 78°43'W, depth 1335 meters over bottom depth of 3810 meters. Holotype: SIO 55-244. Paratypes: SIO 52-355 (1), 55-221 (1), 55-244 (21), 55-246 (1), 55-249 (4); YPM 3745 (1); ZMUC P41159-167 (9); plus additional material. Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:59 [ref. 9588]. •Valid as Melamphaes janae Ebeling 1962 -- (Kotlyar 1996:273 [ref. 23292], Moore & Paxton 1999:2202 [ref. 24787], Kotlyar 2004:2 [ref. 27590], Mundy 2005:297 [ref. 28379], Fricke et al. 2011:371 [ref. 31242], Kotlyar 2015:637 [ref. 34100], Kotlyar 2016:22 [ref. 34170], Kotlyar 2016:252 [ref. 34507], Kotlyar 2016:388 [ref. 35038], Kimura et al. 2019:90 [ref. 37116], Love et al. 2021:97 [ref. 39279]). Current status: Valid as Melamphaes janae Ebeling 1962. Melamphaidae. Distribution: Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to Peru. Habitat: marine.