Species that contain: Macroparalepis and affinis [ 2 ] records

affinis, Macroparalepis Ege [V.] 1933:231 [Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, Kjøbenhavn v. 94; ref. 1186] Southwest of Canary Islands, 25°07'N, 19°20'W, Dana station 829, depth about 100 meters (300 meters of wire out). Holotype (unique): ZMUC P23457. Type catalog: Post 1972:151 [ref. 20860], Nielsen 1974:31 [ref. 9588]. •Valid as Macroparalepis affinis Ege 1933 -- (Post 1973:207 [ref. 7182], Post in Whitehead et al. 1984:501 [ref. 13675], Post 1986:276 [ref. 5705], Post 1990:378 [ref. 15233], Santos et al. 1997:42 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:52 [ref. 24952], Paxton & Niem 1999:1949 [ref. 24746], Menezes et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:50 [ref. 27192], Moore et al. 2003:195 [ref. 27076], Thompson 2003:934 [ref. 27003], Fukui & Ozawa 2004:293 [ref. 28076], Fricke et al. 2011:360 [ref. 31242], Stewart 2015:587 [ref. 34254], Russell 2016:1847 [ref. 34572], Nión et al. 2016:37 [ref. 35565], Brown et al. 2019:159 [ref. 36444], Carneiro et al. 2019:110 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:146 [ref. 37832], Fermon et al. 2022:184 [ref. 39448], Page et al. 2023:93 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Macroparalepis affinis Ege 1933. Paralepididae. Distribution: Atlantic; South Pacific. Habitat: marine.

americana, Macroparalepis affine Rofen [R. R.] 1963:2 [Aquatica No. 2; ref. 3794] Western Atlantic, 29°00'N, 76°23'W. Holotype: USNM 195936. Paratypes: Boston Univ. Coll. (4); USNM 195929-30 (4, 1), 195932-33 (4, 1), 195935-36 (4, 1), 195938-39 (3, 5). Type catalog: Post 1972:151 [ref. 20860]. •Synonym of Macroparalepis affinis Ege 1933 -- (Post 1990:378 [ref. 15233]). Current status: Synonym of Macroparalepis affinis Ege 1933. Paralepididae. Habitat: marine.