Hintonia Fraser-Brunner 1949 (lanternfish)
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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
Type: Hintonia candens
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Kaipara Harbour (Miocene of New Zealand)
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