Bathypterois dubius Vaillant, 1888

Goren, Menachem & Galil, Bella S., 2015, A checklist of the deep sea fishes of the Levant Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Zootaxa 3994 (4), pp. 507-530 : 512-513

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scientific name	Bathypterois dubius Vaillant, 1888
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Bathypterois dubius Vaillant, 1888 View in CoL

Bathypterois dubius Vaillant, 1888: 124 View in CoL , Pls. 9, 12, 14, 15. Type locality: Azores, Atlantic Ocean. Bathypterois dubius, Quéro & Ribes, 1999: 200 View in CoL –204 (synonymized B. mediterraneus View in CoL with B. dubius View in CoL ); Bathypterois mediterraneus Bauchot, 1962: 639 View in CoL , Figs. 4b, 6. Type locality: Rosas, Costa Brava, Spain. Bathypterois mediterraneus, Klausewitz, 1989: 255 View in CoL ; Galil & Goren, 1994: 48; Goren & Galil, 1997: 201; 2002: 151; Gates et

al., 2012: 217–219.

Distribution. Northeastern Atlantic, Mediterranean; depth range 260–2800 m.

Comment. Quero & Ribes (1999), who compared the populations of B. mediterraneus and B. dubius from the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean, concluded that they are identical and B. mediterraneus is a junior synonym of B. dubius . Froese & Pauly (2014) stated that B. mediterraneus "may be valid". Further taxonomic study using molecular tools may resolve the issue.