atricolor, Bathypterois Alcock [A. W.] 1896:306 [6] [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 65 (pt 2, No. 3); ref. 91] Laccadive Sea, western Indian Ocean, Investigator station 115, depth 891 fathoms. Holotype (unique): ZSI F 62/1. Type catalog: Talwar 1977:636 [ref. 26599]. On p. 6 of separate. Figured in Alcock 1897: Pl. 17 (fig. 6) [ref. 20533]. •Valid as Bathypterois atricolor Alcock 1896 -- (Sulak 1977:87 [ref. 4299], Okamura in Okamura et al. 1982:99, 335 [ref. 8256], Yamamoto in Amaoka et al. 1983:87, 183 [ref. 8379], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:63 [ref. 6441], Okamura in Okamura & Kitajima 1984:181, 349 [ref. 8057], Okamura & Machida 1986:38 [ref. 22278], Sulak 1986:262 [ref. 5720], Shinohara et al. 1996:163 [ref. 26605], Pequeño 1989:34 [ref. 14125], Sulak 1990:353 [ref. 15106], Adam et al. 1998:9 [ref. 23610], Fricke 1999:90 [ref. 24106], Paxton & Niem 1999:1924 [ref. 24746], Nakabo 2000:360 [ref. 25086], Paxton in Randall & Lim 2000:591 [ref. 25122], Shinohara et al. 2001:300 [ref. 25995], Chen 2002:101 [ref. 26587], Nakabo 2002:360 [ref. 26001], Shinohara et al. 2005:408 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:195 [ref. 28379], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:252 [ref. 28944], Shao et al. 2008:241 [ref. 29952], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:189 [ref. 30957], Russell 2016:1834 [ref. 34572], Robertson et al. 2017:46 [ref. 35676], Fricke et al. 2019:66 [ref. 36673], Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:18 [ref. 37828], Love et al. 2021:65 [ref. 39279], Fermon et al. 2022:181 [ref. 39448], Page et al. 2023:90 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bathypterois atricolor Alcock 1896. Ipnopidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and subtropical seas, but not in North Atlantic. Habitat: marine.