Osteichthyes - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Parent taxon: Myctophidae according to C. Lin and A. O’Dea 2025
See also Girone et al. 2006, Lin et al. 2017, Martin et al. 2018, Nolf and Steurbaut 1983, Schwarzhans 2019, Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013, Schwarzhans and Ohe 2019, Sepkoski 2002, Steurbaut 1979, Steurbaut 1984 and Stringer 1998
Sister taxa: Aethoprora, Benthosema, Bolinichthys, Dasyscopelus, Diaphinae, Diaphus, Diogenichthys, Eokrefftia, Eomyctophinae, Eomyctophum, Gymnoscopelinae, Lampanyctinae, Lepidophanes, Myctophidarum, Myctophinae, Myctophum, Notolychninae, Tachynectes
Subtaxa: Lobianchia dofleini Lobianchia dofleinoides Lobianchia gemellari Lobianchia johnfitchi
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (6 collections), Italy (5), Japan (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (1), Italy (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (4), Panama (1)
• Miocene of France (5), Greece (4), Italy (10), New Zealand (1), Panama (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Greece (1)
• Oligocene of France (1)
Total: 47 collections including 52 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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