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Electrona risso (electric lantern fish)

Osteichthyes - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae

Taxonomy
Scopelus risso was named by Cocco (1829). It is extant.

It was recombined as Electrona (Electrona) risso by Fraser-Brunner (1949); it was recombined as Electrona rissoi by Fitch (1968), Fitch (1969), Fitch (1970), Fierstine et al. (2012); it was recombined as Electrona risso by Girone et al. (2006), Schwarzhans and Aguilera (2013), Schwarzhans and Ohe (2019), Schwarzhans (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1829Scopelus risso Cocco
1949Electrona (Electrona) risso Fraser-Brunner p. 1048
1968Electrona rissoi Fitch p. 8 fig. 1i
1969Electrona rissoi Fitch p. 5
1970Electrona rissoi Fitch p. 21 fig. 1l
2006Electrona risso Girone et al. p. 656
2012Electrona rissoi Fierstine et al. p. 50
2013Electrona risso Schwarzhans and Aguilera p. 97
2019Electrona risso Schwarzhans p. 243
2019Electrona risso Schwarzhans and Ohe p. 366

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassActinopterygii()
infraclassActinopteri()
—Teleosteomorpha
—Teleostei(Müller 1846)
RankNameAuthor
—ClupeocephalaPatterson and Rosen 1977
—Euteleosteomorpha
—NeoteleosteiRosen 1973
—Eurypterygia(Rosen 1973)
—Ctenosquamata
—Myctophata
orderMyctophiformesRegan 1911
familyMyctophidaeGill 1893
subfamilyMyctophinaeFowler 1925
genusElectronaGoode and Bean 1895
speciesrisso(Cocco 1829)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Electrona risso Cocco 1829 [electric lantern fish]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Created: 2009-07-20 21:28:48
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:28:48
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Opoitian to the top of the Ionian or 5.33300 to 0.12900 Ma

Collections (12 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Opoitian5.333 - 3.7New Zealand Electrona risso (219270)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Greece (Peloponnese) Electrona risso (207769)
Waipipian3.7 - 3.0New Zealand (Chatham Islands) Electrona risso (219645)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.58Japan (Okinawa) Electrona risso (219766 219767)
Gelasian - Calabrian2.58 - 0.774Greece (Rhodes) Electrona risso (207571)
Gelasian - Calabrian2.58 - 0.774Greece (Zakynthos) Electrona risso (207576)
Gelasian - Ionian2.58 - 0.129Greece (Kephallonia) Electrona risso (207577)
Gelasian - Ionian2.58 - 0.129Greece (Rhodes) Electrona risso (207578)
Nukumaruan2.4 - 1.63New Zealand (North Island) Electrona risso (219637)
Ionian0.774 - 0.129Greece (Rhodes) Electrona risso (207568)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117Japan (Kanagawa) Electrona risso (275914)