Species that contain: Triphoturus and nigrescens [ 3 ] records

microchir, Lampanyctus Gilbert [C. H.] 1913:101 [Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum v. 6 (no. 2); ref. 14956] Suruga Bay, Japan, Albatross station 5064, depth 300 fathoms. Holotype (unique): USNM 74468. •Questionably a synonym of Triphoturus nigrescens (Brauer 1904) -- (Paxton 1979:18 [ref. 6440]). •Synonym of Triphoturus nigrescens (Brauer 1904) -- (Hulley 1986:88 [ref. 9677]). •Valid as Triphoturus microchir (Gilbert 1913) -- (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:71 [ref. 6441], Pequeño 1989:38 [ref. 14125] as macrochir, Nakabo 2000:387 [ref. 25086], Shinohara et al. 2005:412 [ref. 28370], Evseenko 2008:170 [ref. 32467] as cf. microchir). Current status: Valid as Triphoturus microchir (Gilbert 1913). Myctophidae: Lampanyctinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Japan. Habitat: marine.

micropterum, Myctophum (Lampanyctus) Brauer [A.] 1906:239, Fig. 157 [Die Tiefsee-Fische v. 15; ref. 632] Indian Ocean, 2°43'08"S, 61°12'06"E. Lectotype: ZMB 17616. Paralectotypes: (9) ZMB 17614-15 (1, 1). Lectotype selected by Hulley 1981 [ref. 2276] who concluded that ZMB 17614-15 were not this species. We treat micropterum as a synonym of nigrescens based on Hulley's 1986 review. •Questionably valid as Triphoturus micropterus (Brauer 1906) -- (Paxton 1979:18 [ref. 6440]). •Valid as Triphoturus micropterus (Brauer 1906) -- (Chen 2002:190 [ref. 26587]). •Synonym of Triphoturus nigrescens (Brauer 1904) -- (Hulley 1986:87 [ref. 9677], Mundy 2005:235 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:530 [ref. 28994], Evseenko 2008:162 [ref. 32467]). Current status: Synonym of Triphoturus nigrescens (Brauer 1904). Myctophidae: Lampanyctinae. Habitat: marine.

nigrescens, Myctophum (Lampanyctus) Brauer [A.] 1904:403 [Zoologischer Anzeiger v. 28 (no. 10); ref. 14868] East of Seychelles, western Indian Ocean, 2°38'09"S, 63°37'09"E, Valdivia station 231, depth 800-1000 meters. Lectotype: ZMB 22379. Paralectotypes: ZMB 17617 (1). Lectotype selected by Hulley 1986:89 [ref. 5672]. •Valid as Triphoturus nigrescens (Brauer 1904) -- (Paxton 1979:18 [ref. 6440], Hulley 1986:321 [ref. 5672], Hulley 1986:87 [ref. 5672], Paulin et al. 1989:116 [ref. 24556], Paxton et al. 1989:269 [ref. 12442], Paxton et al. in Fischer et al. 1995:1321 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:234 [ref. 24545] as nigriscens, Paxton & Hulley 1999:1964 [ref. 24748], Paxton & Hulley in Randall & Lim 2000:594 [ref. 25122], Wang & Chen 2001:109 [ref. 25464], Hutchins 2001:21 [ref. 25847], Chen 2002:192 [ref. 26587], Nakabo 2002:387 [ref. 26001], Love et al. 2005:48 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:235 [ref. 28379], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:256 [ref. 28944], Paxton et al. 2006:530 [ref. 28994], Fricke et al. 2011:362 [ref. 31242], Evseenko 2008:162 [ref. 32467], Fricke et al. 2014:31 [ref. 33932], Robertson & Clements 2015:680 [ref. 34257], Carneiro et al. 2019:127 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:167 [ref. 37832], Love et al. 2021:74 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:98 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Triphoturus nigrescens (Brauer 1904). Myctophidae: Lampanyctinae. Distribution: Southeastern Atlantic: off South Africa; Indo-Pacific: South Africa and East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand; eastern Pacific: northern California (U.S.A.) south to Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico). Habitat: marine.