Species that contain: Loweina and rara [ 3 ] records

integer, Myctophum rarum forma Brauer [A.] 1904:391 [Zoologischer Anzeiger v. 28 (no. 10); ref. 14868] Three Atlantic Valdivia stations. Syntypes: (4) ZMB 17585 (1) station 66, ZMH 8170 (1). Type catalog: Wilkens & Dohse 1993:412 [ref. 21161]. See also Brauer 1906:205, Figs. 125-126 [ref. 632]. •Synonym of Loweina rara (Lütken 1892) -- (Krefft & Bekker 1973:193 [ref. 7181], Paxton 1979:15 [ref. 6440], Hulley 1990:451 [ref. 15273]). Current status: Synonym of Loweina rara (Lütken 1892). Myctophidae: Myctophinae. Habitat: marine.

laurae, Loweina Wisner [R. L.] 1971:45, Fig. 4 [Copeia 1971 (no. 1); ref. 7711] Eastern Pacific, 21°32'N, 123°00'W, surface. Holotype: SIO 57-99. Paratypes: CAS 24875 [ex SIO 65-65] (3); SIO 52-414 (19), 57-99 (7), 60-29 (9); USNM 205482 [ex SIO H52-401] (9). •Valid as Loweina laurae Wisner 1971 -- (Pequeño 1989:38 [ref. 14125]). •Synonym of Loweina rara (Lütken 1892) -- (Paxton 1979:15 [ref. 6440], Mundy 2005:227 [ref. 28379]). Current status: Synonym of Loweina rara (Lütken 1892). Myctophidae: Myctophinae. Habitat: marine.

rarus, Scopelus (Rhinoscopelus) Lütken [C. F.] 1892:246, Fig. 4 [Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et des Lettres de Danemark, Copenhague (Sér. 6) v. 7 (no. 6); ref. 2858] Western central Atlantic, 20°00'N, 49°00'W. Lectotype: ZMUC 223. Paralectotypes: (2) ZMUC 224 (1). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:42 [ref. 9588]. Lectotype selected by Wisner 1976:78 [ref. 19273]. •Valid as Loweina rara (Lütken 1892) -- (Krefft & Bekker 1973:193 [ref. 7181], Paxton 1979:15 [ref. 6440], Hulley in Whitehead et al. 1984:471 [ref. 13675], Hulley 1986:312 [ref. 5672], Matarese et al. 1989:156 [ref. 26885], Paxton et al. 1989:265 [ref. 12442], Paulin et al. 1989:115 [ref. 24556], Hulley 1990:451 [ref. 15273], Paxton et al. in Fischer et al. 1995:1320 [ref. 22830], Santos et al. 1997:49 [ref. 23531], Fricke 1999:97 [ref. 24106], Porteiro et al. 1999:13 [ref. 24203], Paxton & Hulley 1999:1963 [ref. 24748], Hutchins 2001:20 [ref. 25847], Santos et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:56 [ref. 27192], Hartel & Craddock 2003:951 [ref. 27005], Moore et al. 2003:202 [ref. 27076], Love et al. 2005:45 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:227 [ref. 28379], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:255 [ref. 28944], Paxton et al. 2006:525 [ref. 28994], Robertson & Clements 2015:668 [ref. 34257], Hulley 2016:1914 [ref. 34576], Carneiro et al. 2019:124 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:206 [ref. 37832], Love et al. 2021:70 [ref. 39279], Fermon et al. 2022:192 [ref. 39448] with question, Page et al. 2023:97 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Loweina rara (Lütken 1892). Myctophidae: Myctophinae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas. Habitat: marine.