| Citation | Robins, C.R., R.H. Robins and M.E. Brown, 2012, A revision of Lepophidium (Teleoastei, Ophidiidae), with descriptions of eight new species.. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 52(1):1-94. |
| Ref. | Robins, C.R., R.H. Robins and M.E. Brown, 2012 |
| Page | 12;fig.5 |
| Named Used as Valid | Lepophidium staurophor |
| Comment | depth range; max length; distribution; morphology; |
| Locality | Caribbean Sea, FMNH 64383 |
| Distribution | Western Atlantic: apparently restricted to the deep bank area east and northeast of Nicaragua and Honduras in the western Caribbean Sea and north of the Yucatan Peninsula in the southern Gulf of Mexico; none in the eastern Gulf of Mexico; 182-485 m. |
| Quote | 27.3 cm SL; |