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. W. Schwarzhans and S. N. Nielsen 2021
See also Fraser-Brunner 1949, Martin et al. 2018, Schwarzhans 1980, Schwarzhans 2019 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Hintonia, Lampichthys, Notoscopelus, Scopelopsis
Subtaxa: Lampanyctodes hectoris Lampanyctodes mimiensis Lampanyctodes transitivus
Type: Scopelus hectoris
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Haweran of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Quaternary of New Zealand (2)
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of New Zealand (4)
• Miocene of New Zealand (5)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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