danae, Scopelarchoides Johnson [R. K.] 1974:453 [Copeia 1974 (no. 2); ref. 2361] South China Sea, 18°14.4'-18°05.5'N, 119°45.2'-119°24.8'E, depth 0-1850 meters. Holotype: SIO 70-341. Paratypes: (199) CAS 14300 (1); DANA coll. (48 lots); ISH 2285-1971 (1); LACM 32815-1 (1); MCZ 52089-99 (33); MNHN [ex ORSTOM-Nouméa] 2002-0635 (1), 2002-0640 (1); SIO (orig. 14 lots, now 11); SOSC (2); USNM 207395 (1), 207401 (1); WHOI (11 lots). Type catalog: Krefft 1987:79 [ref. 20751]. •Valid as Scopelarchoides danae Johnson 1974 -- (Johnson 1974:124 [ref. 7050], Johnson 1982:165 [ref. 5519], Fujii in Uyeno et al. 1983:197 [ref. 14275], Johnson 1986:266 [ref. 5677], Paxton et al. 1989:233 [ref. 12442], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:578 [ref. 23897], Fricke 1999:91 [ref. 24106], Paxton & Niem 1999:1926 [ref. 24746], Nakabo 2000:374 [ref. 25086], Paxton in Randall & Lim 2000:591 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:21 [ref. 25847], Chen 2002:239 [ref. 26587], Nakabo 2002:374 [ref. 26001], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:49 [ref. 27192], Moore et al. 2003:196 [ref. 27076], Thompson 2003:920 [ref. 27003], Paxton & Gates 2006:489 [ref. 29007], Motomura et al. 2007:14 [ref. 29489], Fricke et al. 2011:359 [ref. 31242], Davis 2015:67 [ref. 33682], Stewart 2015:571 [ref. 34215], Russell 2016:1837 [ref. 34572], Fricke et al. 2018:72 [ref. 35805], Sutton et al. 2020:151 [ref. 37832], Eduardo et al. 2022:7 [ref. 39574], Fermon et al. 2022:182 [ref. 39448], Mincarone et al. 2022:[6] [ref. 39411], Page et al. 2023:91 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Scopelarchoides danae Johnson 1974. Scopelarchidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, except for eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.