melanorhabdus, Chaenophryne Regan [C. T.] & Trewavas [E.] 1932:89, Fig. 143 [Dana Report No. 2; ref. 3682] Gulf of Panama, 7°30'N, 79°19'W, station 1203, depth about 1250 meters (2500 meters wire out). Holotype (unique): ZMUC P92117. Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:90 [ref. 9588]. •Valid as Chaenophryne melanorhabdus Regan & Trewavas 1932 -- (Peden et al. 1985:9 [ref. 24081], McAllister 1990:231 [ref. 14674], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:307 [ref. 25968], Love et al. 2005:60 [ref. 37547], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:201 [ref. 28944], Pietsch 2007:164 [ref. 29040], Pietsch 2009:389 [ref. 30766], Prokofiev 2014:611 [ref. 33565], Ho et al. 2016:291 [ref. 34483] as cf. melanorhabdus, Burton & Lea 2019:53 [ref. 37205], Love et al. 2021:89 [ref. 39279]). Current status: Valid as Chaenophryne melanorhabdus Regan & Trewavas 1932. Oneirodidae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean: Sumatra (Indonesia); western Pacific; eastern Pacific: southern British Columbia (Canada) south to Peru. Habitat: marine.