Species that contain: Bathypterois and atricolor [ 5 ] records

antennatus, Bathypterois Gilbert [C. H.] 1905:590, Fig. 235 [Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission v. 23 (pt 2) [for 1903]; ref. 1631] Near Bird Island, Hawaiian Islands, Albatross station 4151, depth 313-800 fathoms. Holotype: USNM 51640 [not 5160 as published]. Paratypes: CAS-SU 8636 (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:17 [ref. 12291]. •Valid as Bathypterois antennatus Gilbert 1905 -- (Okamura in Okamura et al. 1982:99, 335 [ref. 8256] as anntenatus). •Synonym of Bathypterois atricolor Alcock 1896 -- (Sulak 1990:353 [ref. 15106], Mundy 2005:195 [ref. 28379]). Current status: Synonym of Bathypterois atricolor Alcock 1896. Ipnopidae. Habitat: marine.

atricolor, Bathypterois Alcock [A. W.] 1896:306 [6] [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 65 (pt 2, No. 3); ref. 91] Laccadive Sea, western Indian Ocean, Investigator station 115, depth 891 fathoms. Holotype (unique): ZSI F 62/1. Type catalog: Talwar 1977:636 [ref. 26599]. On p. 6 of separate. Figured in Alcock 1897: Pl. 17 (fig. 6) [ref. 20533]. •Valid as Bathypterois atricolor Alcock 1896 -- (Sulak 1977:87 [ref. 4299], Okamura in Okamura et al. 1982:99, 335 [ref. 8256], Yamamoto in Amaoka et al. 1983:87, 183 [ref. 8379], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:63 [ref. 6441], Okamura in Okamura & Kitajima 1984:181, 349 [ref. 8057], Okamura & Machida 1986:38 [ref. 22278], Sulak 1986:262 [ref. 5720], Shinohara et al. 1996:163 [ref. 26605], Pequeño 1989:34 [ref. 14125], Sulak 1990:353 [ref. 15106], Adam et al. 1998:9 [ref. 23610], Fricke 1999:90 [ref. 24106], Paxton & Niem 1999:1924 [ref. 24746], Nakabo 2000:360 [ref. 25086], Paxton in Randall & Lim 2000:591 [ref. 25122], Shinohara et al. 2001:300 [ref. 25995], Chen 2002:101 [ref. 26587], Nakabo 2002:360 [ref. 26001], Shinohara et al. 2005:408 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:195 [ref. 28379], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:252 [ref. 28944], Shao et al. 2008:241 [ref. 29952], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:189 [ref. 30957], Russell 2016:1834 [ref. 34572], Robertson et al. 2017:46 [ref. 35676], Fricke et al. 2019:66 [ref. 36673], Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:18 [ref. 37828], Love et al. 2021:65 [ref. 39279], Fermon et al. 2022:181 [ref. 39448], Page et al. 2023:90 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bathypterois atricolor Alcock 1896. Ipnopidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and subtropical seas, but not in North Atlantic. Habitat: marine.

indicus, Bathypterois atricolor var. Brauer [A.] 1906:144, Pl. 11 (fig. 1) [Die Tiefsee-Fische v. 15; ref. 632] Northeastern coast of Africa, 1°48'02"N, 45°42'05"E, Valdivia station 257, depth 1644 meters. Holotype: ZMB 17558. •Synonym of Bathypterois atricolor Alcock 1896 -- (Sulak 1990:353 [ref. 15106]). Current status: Synonym of Bathypterois atricolor Alcock 1896. Ipnopidae. Habitat: marine.

pectoralis, Bathypterois Garman [S.] 1899:257, Pl. K (fig. 1) [Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 24; ref. 1540] Off Central America, 0°04'S-23°59'N, 79°36'-108°40'W, Albatross stations 3376, 3393, 3407, and 3431, depth 885-1132 fathoms. Syntypes: FMNH 33730 (1); MCZ 28502-05 (1, 1, 1, 2); CAS-SU 23951 (1); USNM 57888 (1). Type catalog: Ibarra & Stewart 1987:15 [ref. 12367]. •Valid as Bathypterois pectoralis Garman 1899 -- (Pequeño 1989:34 [ref. 14125]). •Synonym of Bathypterois atricolor Alcock 1896 -- (Sulak 1990:353 [ref. 15106]). Current status: Synonym of Bathypterois atricolor Alcock 1896. Ipnopidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.

phenax, Bathypterois atricolor Parr [A. E.] 1928:31 [Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection Yale University v. 3 (art. 3); ref. 3368] Turks Islands, 21°16'N, 71°18'W, depth 900-945 fathoms. Syntypes: YPM 2133 (1), smaller specimen lost. Type catalog: Moore & Boardman 1991:9 [ref. 16741]. •Valid as Bathypterois phenax Parr 1928 -- (Sulak 1977:90 [ref. 4299], Sulak in Whitehead et al. 1984:418 [ref. 13675], Sulak 1986:263 [ref. 5720], Sulak 1990:356 [ref. 15106], Santos et al. 1997:39 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:42 [ref. 24952], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:562 [ref. 23897], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:48 [ref. 27192], Moore et al. 2003:193 [ref. 27076], Thompson 2003:918 [ref. 27003], Franco et al. 2009:808 [ref. 32442], Costa & Mincarone 2010:320 [ref. 37483], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:71 [ref. 37485], Russell 2016:1834 [ref. 34572], Carneiro et al. 2019:106 [ref. 37250], Fermon et al. 2022:181 [ref. 39448] possible, Page et al. 2023:90 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bathypterois phenax Parr 1928. Ipnopidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: U.S.A. south to Brazil, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.