Actinopteri - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Parent taxon: Lampanyctinae according to W. Schwarzhans and F. Ohe 2019
See also Fierstine et al. 2012, Fitch and Lavenberg 1983, Fraser-Brunner 1949, Girone et al. 2006, Martin et al. 2018, Schwarzhans 1978, Schwarzhans 2013, Schwarzhans 2019, Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013, Sepkoski 2002 and Weiler 1959
Sister taxa: Bolinichthys, Diaphini, Gymnoscopelini, Gymnoscopelus, Lampadena, Lampanictini, Lampanyctini, Lepidophanes, Oligophus, Parvilux, Stenobrachius, Taaningichthys, Triphoturus
Subtaxa: Ceratoscopelus maderensis Ceratoscopelus miocenicus Ceratoscopelus priscus Ceratoscopelus richardsoni Ceratoscopelus townsendi Ceratoscopelus warmingi Ceratoscopelus weileri
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (9 collections), Italy (6), Panama (1), United States (3: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (3), Italy (6), Japan (5), United States (4: California, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Greece (6), Italy (3), Japan (1), New Zealand (7)
• Eocene of Brazil (1)
Total: 57 collections including 60 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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