Species that contain: Benthalbella and infans [ 2 ] records

dubius, Neoscopelarchoides Marshall [N. B.] 1955:309, Fig. 2; Pl. 19 (figs. 3-4) [Discovery Reports v. 27; ref. 12282] Indian Ocean, about 500 miles southeast of Madagascar, 31°54.5'S, 51°27.9'E. Holotype: BMNH 1955.3.30.4. •Synonym of Benthalbella infans Zugmayer 1911 -- (Johnson 1974:77 [ref. 7050], Johnson in Whitehead et al. 1984:485 [ref. 13675], Johnson 1990:393 [ref. 15266]). Current status: Synonym of Benthalbella infans Zugmayer 1911. Scopelarchidae. Habitat: marine.

infans, Benthalbella Zugmayer [E.] 1911:14 [Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique (Monaco) No. 193; ref. 6161] North of Madeira, eastern Atlantic, station 3036, 6°07'N, 10°18'W, depth 0-4740 meters. Holotype (unique): MOM 0091-1188. Type catalog: Belloc 1949:11 [ref. 21544]. Species illustrated and described in more detail in Zugmayer 1911:140, Pl. 2 (fig. 8) [ref. 4846]. •Valid as Benthalbella infans Zugmayer 1911 -- (Maul 1973:199 [ref. 7171], Johnson 1974:76 [ref. 7050], Johnson 1982:154 [ref. 5519], Johnson in Whitehead et al. 1984:485 [ref. 13675], Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:63 [ref. 6441], Johnson 1986:265 [ref. 5677], Scott & Scott 1988:203 [ref. 25518], Paxton et al. 1989:233 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:34 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:106 [ref. 24556], McAllister 1990:98 [ref. 14674], Johnson 1990:393 [ref. 15266], Santos et al. 1997:39 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:51 [ref. 24952], Fricke 1999:91 [ref. 24106], Porteiro et al. 1999:32 [ref. 24203], Paxton & Niem 1999:1926 [ref. 24746], Nakabo 2000:375 [ref. 25086], Paxton in Randall & Lim 2000:591 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2002:375 [ref. 26001], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:49 [ref. 27192], Thompson 2003:920 [ref. 27003], Mundy 2005:196 [ref. 28379], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:253 [ref. 28944], Paxton & Gates 2006:488 [ref. 29007], Hartel et al. 2008:324 [ref. 29890], Møller et al. 2010:32 [ref. 31169], Fricke et al. 2011:359 [ref. 31242], Davis 2015:67 [ref. 33682], Stewart 2015:569 [ref. 34215], Russell 2016:1837 [ref. 34572], Carneiro et al. 2019:106 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:152 [ref. 37832], Eduardo et al. 2022:7 [ref. 39574], Fermon et al. 2022:182 [ref. 39448] possible, Mincarone et al. 2022:[5] [ref. 39411], Simian et al. 2022:374 [ref. 40776], Page et al. 2023:91 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Benthalbella infans Zugmayer 1911. Scopelarchidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas, but not in the eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.