dumerilii, Scopelus Bleeker [P.] 1856:66 [Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae v. 1 (6); ref. 352] Off Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Syntypes: (3) RMNH 6931 (2, poor condition). •Valid as Diaphus dumerili (Bleeker 1856) -- (Krefft & Bekker 1973:177 [ref. 7181], Paxton 1979:7 [ref. 6440], McAllister 1990:104 [ref. 14674], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:232 [ref. 24545], Moore et al. 2003:199 [ref. 27076]). •Valid as Diaphus dumerilii (Bleeker 1856) -- (Fujii in Uyeno et al. 1983:176 [ref. 14275], Hulley in Whitehead et al. 1984:444 [ref. 13675], Hulley 1986:290 [ref. 5672], Hulley 1990:409 [ref. 15273], Boschung 1992:71 [ref. 23239], Santos et al. 1997:45 [ref. 23531], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:632 [ref. 23897], Paxton & Hulley 1999:1962 [ref. 24748], Craddock, Hartel & Flescher in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:201 [ref. 26158], Collette et al. 2003:100 [ref. 26784], Santos et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:52 [ref. 27192], Hartel & Craddock 2003:950 [ref. 27005], Mundy 2005:215 [ref. 28379], Bañon et al. 2010:9 [ref. 31029], Costa & Mincarone 2010:354 [ref. 37483], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:78 [ref. 37485], Pinheiro et al. 2015:8 [ref. 34324], Hulley 2016:1888 [ref. 34576], Nión et al. 2016:38 [ref. 35565], Carneiro et al. 2019:117 [ref. 37250], Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:52 [ref. 37828], Klautau et al. 2020:8 [ref. 37903], Sutton et al. 2020:179 [ref. 37832] in subgenus Aethoprora, Bañón & Maño 2021:56 [ref. 38883], Eduardo et al. 2021:4 [ref. 38817], Eduardo et al. 2022:8 [ref. 39574], Fermon et al. 2022:189 [ref. 39448], Page et al. 2023:94 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Diaphus dumerilii (Bleeker 1856). Myctophidae: Diaphinae. Distribution: Atlantic; Pacific. Habitat: marine.