Metelectrona Wisner 1963 (lanternfish)

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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