Lampichthys Fraser-Brunner 1949 (lanternfish)
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Osteichthyes - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Alternative spelling: Lampichthyes
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. Schwarzhans 2019
See also Fraser-Brunner 1949, Martin et al. 2018, Schwarzhans 1980 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Hintonia, Lampanyctodes, Notoscopelus, Scopelopsis
Subtaxa: Lampichthys mangapariensis Lampichthys procerus Lampichthys rectangularis
Type: Myctophum procerum
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of New Zealand (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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