Metelectrona Wisner 1963 (lanternfish)
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Actinopteri - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Alternative spelling: Electrona (Metelectrona)
Parent taxon: Myctophinae according to R. P. Martin et al. 2018
See also Paxton 1979
Sister taxa: Antimyctophum, Benthosema, Centrobranchus, Ctenoscopelus, Dasyscopelus, Diogenichthys, Electrona, Gonichthys, Krefftichthys, Loweina, Myctophini, Protomyctophum, Symbolophorus, Tarletonbeania
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Metelectrona in the database
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