Osteichthyes - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Belongs to Myctophum according to Eigenmann and Eigenmann 1889
See also Fitch 1968, Fraser-Brunner 1949 and Schwarzhans and Ohe 2019
Sister taxa: Myctophum (Myctophum), Myctophum (Nasolychnus), Myctophum (Scopelus), Myctophum affine, Myctophum americanum, Myctophum antelaternatum, Myctophum arcanum, Myctophum asperum, Myctophum bortonensis, Myctophum braueri, Myctophum columnae, Myctophum danielli, Myctophum degraciai, Myctophum dorsale, Myctophum evermanni, Myctophum fibulatum, Myctophum gilberti, Myctophum hollandi, Myctophum imitata, Myctophum jacksoni, Myctophum laternatum, Myctophum licatae, Myctophum longipes, Myctophum luetkeni, Myctophum lychnobium, Myctophum margaritatum, Myctophum mundulum, Myctophum murbani, Myctophum nitidulum, Myctophum obtusirostris, Myctophum oroseinum, Myctophum praepterotum, Myctophum pulchrum, Myctophum punctatum, Myctophum renschi, Myctophum robustus, Myctophum selenops, Myctophum simile, Myctophum spinosum, Myctophum splendidum, Myctophum tamumuensis, Myctophum tenellum, Myctophum tenisoni, Myctophum tenuiforme, Myctophum unicum, Myctophum weileri, Scopelus (Myctophum) macrochir
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Myctophum townsendi in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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