Ctenoscopelus Fraser-Brunner 1949 (lanternfish)

Actinopteri - 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: Myctophinae according to R. P. Martin et al. 2018

See also Fraser-Brunner 1949

Sister taxa: Antimyctophum, Benthosema, Centrobranchus, Dasyscopelus, Diogenichthys, Electrona, Gonichthys, Krefftichthys, Loweina, Metelectrona, Myctophini, Protomyctophum, Symbolophorus, Tarletonbeania

Subtaxa: Ctenoscopelus phengodes

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Ctenoscopelus in the database

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