Myctophum asperum Richardson 
Myctophum asperum RICHARDSON, Ichth# Voy. Erebus and Terror, 1844-48, 
p. 41, pi, 27, figs. 13-15. Locality unknown. —BRAUER, Zool. 
Anzeiger, vol. 28, Nr. 10, Dec. 20, 1904, p. 390 (diagnosis in key). 
—TAANING, Vidensk. Medd. Danskjt’ Naturh. Foren. Kobenhavn, vol. 86, 
1928, p. 54 (North Atlantic; diagnosis in key). —PARR, Bull. 
Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, vol. 3, art. 3, Dec. 1928, p. 63 
(note). —NORMAN, Discovery Rep., vol. 2, 1930, p. 325 (type; type 
of Dasyscopelus naufragus )• 
Myctophum ( Myctophum ) asperum BRAUER, Deutsch. Tiefsee Exp. Valdivia , 
vol. 15, Tiefsee-Fische, 1906, p. 197, text fig. 115 (STEINDACHNER*3 
specimen). 
Scopelus asper VALENCIENNES? Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 22, 1849, p. 454 
(New Ireland). —gOMHER, Oat, Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 5, 1864, 
p. 411 (type; Gulf of Guinea). 
Scopelus ( Dasyscopelus ) asper STEINDACHNER, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien 
Math.-Nat. Kl., vol. 55, pt. 1, 1867, p. 589 (China Sea). 
