rarus, Scopelus (Rhinoscopelus) Lütken [C. F.] 1892:246, Fig. 4 [Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et des Lettres de Danemark, Copenhague (Sér. 6) v. 7 (no. 6); ref. 2858] Western central Atlantic, 20°00'N, 49°00'W. Lectotype: ZMUC 223. Paralectotypes: (2) ZMUC 224 (1). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:42 [ref. 9588]. Lectotype selected by Wisner 1976:78 [ref. 19273]. •Valid as Loweina rara (Lütken 1892) -- (Krefft & Bekker 1973:193 [ref. 7181], Paxton 1979:15 [ref. 6440], Hulley in Whitehead et al. 1984:471 [ref. 13675], Hulley 1986:312 [ref. 5672], Matarese et al. 1989:156 [ref. 26885], Paxton et al. 1989:265 [ref. 12442], Paulin et al. 1989:115 [ref. 24556], Hulley 1990:451 [ref. 15273], Paxton et al. in Fischer et al. 1995:1320 [ref. 22830], Santos et al. 1997:49 [ref. 23531], Fricke 1999:97 [ref. 24106], Porteiro et al. 1999:13 [ref. 24203], Paxton & Hulley 1999:1963 [ref. 24748], Hutchins 2001:20 [ref. 25847], Santos et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:56 [ref. 27192], Hartel & Craddock 2003:951 [ref. 27005], Moore et al. 2003:202 [ref. 27076], Love et al. 2005:45 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:227 [ref. 28379], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:255 [ref. 28944], Paxton et al. 2006:525 [ref. 28994], Robertson & Clements 2015:668 [ref. 34257], Hulley 2016:1914 [ref. 34576], Carneiro et al. 2019:124 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:206 [ref. 37832], Love et al. 2021:70 [ref. 39279], Fermon et al. 2022:192 [ref. 39448] with question, Page et al. 2023:97 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Loweina rara (Lütken 1892). Myctophidae: Myctophinae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas. Habitat: marine.