Hypomesus Gill [T. N.] 1862:15 Masc. Argentina pretiosa Girard 1854. Type by monotypy. See Mesopus Gill 1862. Technical first reviser (if needed) selecting Hypomesus over Mesopus; see Gill 1862:332 [ref. 1668]. •Valid as Hypomesus Gill 1862 -- (McAllister 1963:27 [ref. 8075], Uyeno in Masuda et al. 1984:33 [ref. 6441], Saruwatari et al. 1997:61 [ref. 23753], Dorofeeva 1998:50 [ref. 23573], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:170 [ref. 25968], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:126 [ref. 28183], Scharpf 2006:22 [ref. 30386], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:346 [ref. 29996], Parin et al. 2014:113 [ref. 33547], Zhang et al. 2016:186 [ref. 34477], Dyldin & Orlov 2016:673 [ref. 34853]). Current status: Valid as Hypomesus Gill 1862. Osmeridae.