margarita, Echiostoma Goode [G. B.] & Bean [T. H.] 1896:109, Pl. 35 (fig. 131) [Special Bulletin U. S. National Museum No. 2; ref. 1848] Gulf of Mexico, 28°38'30"N, 87°02'00"W, Albatross station 2394, depth 420 fathoms. Holotype (unique): USNM 39282 (poor condition). •Valid as Photonectes margarita (Goode & Bean 1896) -- (Fujii in Okamura et al. 1982:87, 331 [ref. 8256], Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:52 [ref. 6441], Scott & Scott 1988:178 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:95 [ref. 14674], Gibbs & Barnett 1990:334 [ref. 14915], Shinohara et al. 1996:163 [ref. 26605], Santos et al. 1997:37 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:38 [ref. 24952], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:537 [ref. 23897], Porteiro et al. 1999:31 [ref. 24203], Harold 1999:1913 [ref. 24741], Nakabo 2000:338 [ref. 25086], Nakabo 2002:338 [ref. 26001], Harold 2003:912 [ref. 27001], Moore et al. 2003:190 [ref. 27076], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:48 [ref. 27192] with wrong locality, Love et al. 2005:39 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:189 [ref. 28379] as cf. margarita, Fricke et al. 2011:358 [ref. 31242], Klepadlo 2011:202 [ref. 31414] in subgenus Trachinostomias, Prokofiev 2015:132 [ref. 33761], Harold 2016:1815 [ref. 34568], Carneiro et al. 2019:103 [ref. 37250], Prokofiev 2019:450 [ref. 36966], Sutton et al. 2020:122 [ref. 37832], Love et al. 2021:60 [ref. 39279], Fermon et al. 2022:178 [ref. 39448], Page et al. 2023:89 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Photonectes margarita (Goode & Bean 1896). Stomiidae: Melanostomiinae. Distribution: Circumglobal in warm seas. Habitat: marine.