Species that contain: Symbolophorus and rufinus [ 1 ] records

rufinum, Myctophum Tåning [A. V.] 1928:54 [Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, Kjøbenhavn v. 86; ref. 15877] North Atlantic, 15°50'N, 26°32'W, surface. Lectotype: ZMUC P2330210. Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:40 [ref. 9588]. Lectotype selected by Nafpaktitis 1973:16 [ref. 10436]. •Valid as Symbolophorus rufinus (Tåning 1928) -- (Paxton 1979:18 [ref. 6440], Hulley 1986:320 [ref. 5672], Hulley 1990:464 [ref. 15273], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:673 [ref. 23897], Fricke 1999:98 [ref. 24106], Santos et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:57 [ref. 27192], Hartel & Craddock 2003:951 [ref. 27005], Moore et al. 2003:203 [ref. 27076], Mundy 2005:233 [ref. 28379], Fricke et al. 2009:26 [ref. 30213], Fricke et al. 2014:31 [ref. 33932], Hulley 2016:1926 [ref. 34576], Carneiro et al. 2019:126 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:216 [ref. 37832], Page et al. 2023:97 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Symbolophorus rufinus (Tåning 1928). Myctophidae: Myctophinae. Distribution: Circumglobal, but except the eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.