Scopelopsis Brauer 1906 (lanternfish)
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Osteichthyes - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Parent taxon: Gymnoscopelinae according to R. P. Martin et al. 2018
See also Fraser-Brunner 1949, Girone et al. 2006, Nolf and Steurbaut 1983, Schwarzhans 1980 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Hintonia, Lampanyctodes, Lampichthys, Notoscopelus
Subtaxa: Scopelopsis caudalis Scopelopsis multipunctatus Scopelopsis pliocenicus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (5 collections), Italy (3)
• Pliocene of Greece (1)
• Miocene of Greece (2), Italy (11)
Total: 22 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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