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Diaphus perspicillatoides

Osteichthyes - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae

Taxonomy

Diaphus perspicillatoides was named by Brzobohaty and Nolf (1995). Its type specimen is IRSNB P 6222, an otolith, and it is a 3D body fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

D. acutirostrum, D. adenomus, D. befralai, D. cavallonis, D. cyrano, D. depresifrons, D. excavatus, D. kokeni, D. muraii, D. pedmontanus, D. praerafinesquii, D. pristismetallis, D. prspicillatoides, D. pulcher, D. quadrangularis, D. rafinesquei, D. rubus, D. shizukuishiensis, D. sulci, D. taanigni, D. trapezoidalis, D. licatae

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1995	Diaphus perspicillatoides Brzobohaty and Nolf p. 260

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Actinopterygii	()
infraclass	Actinopteri	()
—	Teleosteomorpha

Rank	Name	Author
—	Teleostei	(Müller 1846)
—	Clupeocephala	Patterson and Rosen 1977
—	Euteleosteomorpha
—	Neoteleostei	Rosen 1973
—	Eurypterygia	(Rosen 1973)
—	Ctenosquamata
—	Myctophata
order	Myctophiformes	Regan 1911
family	Myctophidae	Gill 1893
genus	Diaphus	Eigenmann and Eigenmann 1890
species	perspicillatoides

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.

†Diaphus perspicillatoides Brzobohaty and Nolf 1995

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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: Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Chattian to the top of the Holocene or 27.30000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (11 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	France	Diaphus perspicillatoides (152692 219194)
Otaian	21.7 - 18.7	New Zealand (North Island)	Diaphus perspicillatoides (219517 219522)
Altonian	18.7 - 15.9	New Zealand (North Island)	Diaphus perspicillatoides (219527)
Altonian	18.7 - 15.9	New Zealand (North Shore)	Diaphus perspicillatoides (219523 219524 219525 219526)
Altonian	18.7 - 15.9	New Zealand (South Island)	Diaphus perspicillatoides (219609)
Pleistocene - Holocene	2.58 - 0.0	South Atlantic	Diaphus perspicillatoides (210206)