Actinopteri - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Parent taxon: Myctophidae according to L. J. Legendre et al. 2020
See also Carnevale 2007, Fierstine et al. 2012, Girone et al. 2006, Heinrich 1969, Martin et al. 2018, Nolf and Steurbaut 1983, Ohe and Araki 1973, Schwarzhans 1978, Schwarzhans 1980, Schwarzhans 2019, Schwarzhans and Ohe 2019, Sepkoski 2002, Steurbaut 1979, Steurbaut 1984 and Stringer 1998
Sister taxa: Aethoprora, Diaphinae, Diaphus, Eokrefftia, Eomyctophinae, Eomyctophum, Gymnoscopelinae, Lampanyctinae, Lampanyctus, Myctophidarum, Myctophinae, Myctophum, Notolychninae, Scopelus, Tachynectes
Subtaxa: Hygophum acutiventris Hygophum agatense Hygophum agrigentensis Hygophum benoiti Hygophum circularis Hygophum derthonensis Hygophum germanicum Hygophum hygomi Hygophum macrochir Hygophum orcianensis Hygophum pabloensis Hygophum probenoiti Hygophum proximum Hygophum rotundum Hygophum taaningi
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (10 collections), Italy (6), Japan (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (2), Italy (6), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Venezuela (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (4), Germany (1), Greece (4), Italy (17), Japan (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (16), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Venezuela (1)
• Neogene of Indonesia (2)
Total: 81 collections including 103 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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