Bathypterois ventralis Garman, 1899 .

To 16.7 cm (6.6 in) SL (Cruz-Acevedo et al. 2017). Indo-Pacific (Fricke et al. 2020); southern Baja California (27°07’N, 114°36’W) (Cruz-Acevedo et al. 2017) to Chile (33°S) (Sulak 1977). Depth: 165–1,406 m (2,519 –4,612 ft) (min.: Robertson et al. 2017; max.: Morera et al. 2019). Bathypterois ventralis may be a junior synonym of B. atricolor (Robertson et al. 2017) .