Species that contain: Alepisaurus and brevirostris [ 2 ] records

brevirostris, Alepisaurus Gibbs [R. H., Jr.] 1960:2, Figs. 1 (top), 2 (left) [Breviora No. 123; ref. 11913] Western North Atlantic, 38°49'N, 64°02'W. Holotype: USNM 186197. Paratypes: ANSP 98566 (1), BMNH 1960.7.12.1 (1), CAS 79535 (1), CUMV, MMF, MCZ 40635 (1), MNHN 1960-0577 (1), SIO 60-164 (1), CAS-SU 54416 (1), TU 22990 (1), UF 206544 [ex UMML 6544] (1), UMMZ 177186 (1). Type catalog: Suttkus 1970:117 [ref. 20861], Böhlke 1984:18 [ref. 13621], Bart & Taylor 1993:31 [ref. 20906]. •Valid as Alepisaurus brevirostris Gibbs 1960 -- (Gibbs & Wilimovsky 1966:489 [ref. 24558], Nakaya in Amaoka et al. 1983:97, 188 [ref. 8379], Heemstra & Smith 1986:281 [ref. 5668], Paxton et al. 1989:251 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:34 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:113 [ref. 24556], Post 1990:387 [ref. 15233], McAllister 1990:102 [ref. 14674], Gon 1990:144 [ref. 21680], Cervigón 1992:253 [ref. 23827], Gomon et al. 1994:273 [ref. 22532], Santos et al. 1997:123 [ref. 23531], Porteiro et al. 1999:33 [ref. 24203], Paxton & Niem 1999:1953 [ref. 24746], Vargas F. & Sielfeld K. 1999:22 [ref. 37226], Hutchins 2001:21 [ref. 25847], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:235 [ref. 25968], Menezes & Moura in Menezes et al. 2003:51 [ref. 27192], Moore et al. 2003:196 [ref. 27076], Thompson 2003:940 [ref. 27003], Nelson et al. 2004:88 [ref. 27807], Duhamel et al. 2005:160 [ref. 32059], Paxton et al. 2006:498 [ref. 29053], Bray 2008:265 [ref. 30620], Møller et al. 2010:33 [ref. 31169], Fricke et al. 2011:359 [ref. 31242], Page et al. 2013:89 [ref. 32708], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:109 [ref. 36167] as Alepisaurua b., Stewart 2015:603 [ref. 34254], Russell 2016:1841 [ref. 34572], Nión et al. 2016:37 [ref. 35565], Carneiro et al. 2019:113 [ref. 37250], Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:35 [ref. 37828], Klautau et al. 2020:7 [ref. 37903], Sutton et al. 2020:130 [ref. 37832], Fermon et al. 2022:185 [ref. 39448] possible, Heemstra 2022:222 [ref. 39702], Page et al. 2023:93 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Alepisaurus brevirostris Gibbs 1960. Alepisauridae. Distribution: Circumglobal. Habitat: marine.

crozetensis, Alepisaurus brevirostris Hureau [J.-C.] 1968:835, Fig. 1 A [Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Série 2) v. 39 (no. 5) (for 1967); ref. 7896] Crozet Islands, southern Indian Ocean. Syntypes: MNHN 1967-0500 (1), 1967-0501 to 0502 (2). •Synonym of Alepisaurus brevirostris Gibbs 1960 -- (Gon 1990:144 [ref. 21680] dated 1967). Current status: Synonym of Alepisaurus brevirostris Gibbs 1960. Alepisauridae. Habitat: marine.