Hintonia Fraser-Brunner 1949 (lanternfish)

Osteichthyes - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae

Full reference: A. Fraser-Brunner. 1949. A classification of the fishers in the Family Myctophidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118(4):1019-1106

Parent taxon: Gymnoscopelinae according to W. Schwarzhans 2019

See also Fraser-Brunner 1949 and Martin et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Lampanyctodes, Lampichthys, Notoscopelus, Scopelopsis

Subtaxa: Hintonia candens Hintonia robertsi

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Type: Hintonia candens

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kaipara Harbour (Miocene of New Zealand)

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