vaillanti, Trichostomias Zugmayer [E.] 1911:6 [Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique (Monaco) No. 193; ref. 6161] Off Portugal, 37°37'N, 10°53'W, station 3024, depth 0-4900 meters. Holotype (unique): MOM 0091-1143. Species illustrated and described in more detail in Zugmayer 1911:78, Pl. 3 (fig. 4) [ref. 4846]. •Valid as Bathophilus vaillanti (Zugmayer 1911) -- (Morrow 1973:136 [ref. 7175], Gibbs in Whitehead et al. 1984:344 [ref. 13675], Scott & Scott 1988:176 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:94 [ref. 14674], Gibbs & Barnett 1990:311 [ref. 14915], Santos et al. 1997:35 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:37 [ref. 24952], Porteiro et al. 1999:30 [ref. 24203], Moore et al. 2003:187 [ref. 27076], Psomadakis et al. 2012:16 [ref. 33457], Harold 2016:1813 [ref. 34568], Schnell & Johnson 2017:2 [ref. 35193], Carneiro et al. 2019:96 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:94 [ref. 37832], Fermon et al. 2022:175 [ref. 39448] with question, Page et al. 2023:87 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bathophilus vaillanti (Zugmayer 1911). Stomiidae: Melanostomiinae. Distribution: Circumglobal. Habitat: marine.