lampfish, mirror lanternfish, Lampadena speculigera Goode and Bean, 1896 (off west and southeast coasts. Atlantic (66° – 35°N and 35° – 45°S), Indian Ocean (30° to 45°S) and Pacific Ocean (30° – 45°S)) Lampanyctus alatus Goode and Bean, 1896 (off all South African coasts; Atlantic (46°N – 38°S), Indian Ocean (0° – 39°S) Southern lanternfish, Lampanyctus australis Tåning, 1932 (off all South African coasts; circumglobal convergence species (33° – 43°S with northern extension to about 27°S in eastern boundary currents)) Lampanyctus festivus Tåning, 1928 (off all South African coasts. Atlantic(53° – 18°N and 28° – 40°S with northern extension to 12°S in Benguela current and Indo-West Pacific.) Lampanyctus lepidolychnus Bekker, 1967 (off all South African coasts, circumglobal convergence species (23° – 48°S)) Rakery beaconlamp, Lampanyctus macdonaldi (Goode and Bean, 1896) (west of Cape Peninsula, circumglobal between subtropical convergence and Antarctic polar front) Lampanyctus pusillus (Johnson, 1890) (off all South African coasts. Bisubtropical species in all major oceans) Lampichthys procerus (Brauer, 1904) (off Cape Peninsula, circumglobal convergence species (32° – 48°S) with extensions into lower latitudes in eastern boundary currents) Lobianchia dofleini (Zugmayer, 1911) (off all South African coasts. Mediterranean, Atlantic (50°N – 40°S), Indian Ocean (23° – 38°S), Tasman sea and south Pacific(region of subtropical convergence)) Lobianchia gemellarii (Cocco, 1838) (off all South African coasts, worldwide in tropical/subtropical waters) Metelectrona ventralis (Bekker, 1063) (west of Cape Peninsula in southern Benguela upwelling region; circumglobal subantarctic species (36°-51°S)) Myctophum phengodes (Lütken, 1892) (off all South African coasts) Myctophum selenops Tåning, 1928 (west of Cape peninsula in Agulhas water pockets) Nannobrachium atrum (Tåning, 1928), syn. Lampanyctus ater (off all South African coasts; Atlantic (58° – 17°N and 15° – 40°S) and Indian Ocean (12° – 44°S)) Notolychnus valdiviae (Brauer, 1904) (off all South African coasts) Patchwork lampfish, Notoscopelus resplendens (Richardson, 1845) (off all South African coasts) Protomyctophum normani Tåning, 1932 (once west of Slangkop lighthouse; circumglobal convergence species (36° – 43°S)) Scopelopsis multipunctatus Brauer, 1906 (off all South African coasts) Symbolophorus barnardi (Tåning, 1932) (off all South African coasts) Order Notacanthiformes Family Halosauridae – halosaurs Gilbert's halosaurid, Aldrovandia affinis (Günther, 1877) (both coasts of SA; cicumglobal tropical and temperate) Hawaiian halosaurid, Aldrovandia phalacra (Vaillant, 1888) (off Cape Point) Abyssal halosaur, Halosauropsis macrochir (Günther, 1878) (off Cape Point) Halosaurus ovenii Johnson, 1863 (off Cape Point to Walvis Bay) Family Notacanthidae – spiny eels Notacanthus sexspinis Richardson, 1846 (Walvis Bay to Durban) Polyacanthonotus africanus (Gilchrist