arafurensis, Psenes Günther [A.] 1889:13, Pl. 2 (fig. G) [Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger v. 31 (pt 78); ref. 2017] Arafura Sea, western Pacific, surface net. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1889.7.20.55. •Valid as Psenes arafurensis Günther 1889 -- (Haedrich 1967:88 [ref. 5357], Nakabo in Masuda et al. 1984:235 [ref. 6441], Haedrich 1986:849 [ref. 5659], Haedrich 1990:1016 [ref. 19509], Kuiter 1993:381 [ref. 23929], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:176 [ref. 25472], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:604 [ref. 24023], Adam et al. 1998:14 [ref. 23610], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:291 [ref. 24555], Fricke 1999:567 [ref. 24106], Last in Randall & Lim 2000:644 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:963 [ref. 25182], Last 2001:3778 [ref. 26309], Myoung et al. 2001:197 [ref. 25731], Hutchins 2001:46 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:963 [ref. 26193], Haedrich 2003:1872 [ref. 27117], Figueiredo et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:104 [ref. 27192], Parin & Piotrovsky 2004:S51 [ref. 28443], Shinohara et al. 2005:441 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:512 [ref. 28379], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:807 [ref. 28815], Hoese & Bray 2006:1796 [ref. 29000], Randall 2007:454 [ref. 30952], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:195 [ref. 30957], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1042 [ref. 31980], Shinohara et al. 2014:273 [ref. 33330], Haedrich in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2923 [ref. 34618], Koeda et al. 2016:107 [ref. 35333], Lee et al. 2016:2 [ref. 36310], Motomura et al. 2017:178 [ref. 35490], Cabebe & Motomura 2019:120 [ref. 37815], Kawai et al. 2020:54 [ref. 37785], Kim et al. 2020:185 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:579 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:85 [ref. 37637], Sutton et al. 2020:266 [ref. 37832], Anderson 2022:305 [ref. 40173], Fermon et al. 2022:210 [ref. 39448], Mahesh et al. 2022:[2] [ref. 39034], Carvalho-Filho 2023:263 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Psenes arafurensis Günther 1889. Nomeidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and subtropical seas (including southern Sea of Japan). Habitat: marine.