Species that contain: Hymenocephalus and italicus [ 3 ] records

cavernosus, Bathygadus Goode [G. B.] & Bean [T. H.] 1885:598 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 8 (no. 543); ref. 1842] Gulf of Mexico, 28°45'N, 86°26'W, Albatross station 2398, depth 227 fathoms. Holotype (unique): USNM 37337. •Synonym of Hymenocephalus italicus Giglioli 1884 -- (Marshall 1973:289 [ref. 7194], Geistdoerfer 1990:553 [ref. 16195], Schwarzhans 2014:55 [ref. 33586]). Current status: Synonym of Hymenocephalus italicus Giglioli 1884. Macrouridae. Habitat: marine.

heterolepis, Macrurus Alcock [A. W.] 1889:396 [22] [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6) v. 4 (no. 23); ref. 81] Andaman Sea off Ross Island, 265-271 fathoms; Bengal Bay between North and South Sentinel Islands, depth 220-240 fathoms. Syntypes: BMNH 1890.7.31.6 [ex ZSI F11645] (1) off Ross Island, MNHN 1890-0347 [ex ZSI 11775] (1) Andaman Sea, ZSI F11774 (1) off Ross Island. Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:137-138 [ref. 20743], Menon and Rama-Rao 1970:377 [ref. 27516], Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:38 [ref. 22148], Bailly et al. 1999:230 [ref. 24244]. Original genus should have been Macrourus. On p. 22 of separate. Figured in Alcock 1892: Pl. 3 (fig. 2) [ref. 20531]. •Synonym of Hymenocephalus italicus Giglioli 1884 -- (Marshall 1973:290 [ref. 7194], Geistdoerfer 1990:554 [ref. 16195], Bailly et al. 1999:230 [ref. 24244]). •Valid as Hymenocephalus heterolepis (Alcock 1889) -- (Iwamoto in Cohen et al. 1990:230-231 [ref. 18936], Schwarzhans 2014:50 [ref. 33586], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:91 [ref. 41223]). Current status: Valid as Hymenocephalus heterolepis (Alcock 1889). Macrouridae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean: Andaman Islands (India) and coast of Malaya (Malaysia). Habitat: marine.

italicus, Hymenocephalus Giglioli [E. H.] 1884:228 [Esplorazione talassografica del Mediterraneo eseguita sotto gli auspici del governo italiano; ref. 5325] Genoa, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: MZUF 5644 (1), 5645 (1), 5648-51 (4). Type catalog: Vanni 1991:223 [ref. 20099]. •Valid as Hymenocephalus italicus Giglioli 1884 -- (Marshall 1973:289 [ref. 7194], Arai in Uyeno et al. 1983:216 [ref. 14275], Geistdoerfer in Whitehead et al. 1986:664 [ref. 13676], Geistdoerfer 1990:553 [ref. 16195], Iwamoto in Cohen et al. 1990:230 [ref. 18936], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:143 [ref. 25472], Anderson 1997:230 [ref. 22910], Santos et al. 1997:56 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:68 [ref. 24952], Adam et al. 1998:10 [ref. 23610], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:784 [ref. 23897], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:49 [ref. 26753], Iwamoto 2003:987 [ref. 27010], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S98 [ref. 27377], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:61 [ref. 27192], Moore et al. 2003:210 [ref. 27076], Golani 2005:25 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:62 [ref. 29533], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:28 [ref. 36649], Schwarzhans 2014:55 [ref. 33586], Goren & Galil 2015:514 [ref. 33910], Bañón et al. 2016:313 [ref. 34397], Iwamoto 2016:1980 [ref. 34585], Carneiro et al. 2019:135 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:94 [ref. 36864], Reiner 2019:114 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:47 [ref. 37515], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 9 [ref. 38321], Kovačić et al. 2020:18 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:58 [ref. 38883], Golani 2021:27 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:30 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:199 [ref. 39448], Page et al. 2023:101 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Hymenocephalus italicus Giglioli 1884. Macrouridae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Atlantic; western Indian Ocean. Habitat: marine.