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Diaphus austriacus

Osteichthyes - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae

Taxonomy

Otolithus (Berycidarum) austriacus was named by Koken (1891). It is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Diaphus austriacus by Schwarzhans (2013), Schwarzhans and Aguilera (2013).

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
1891	Otolithus (Berycidarum) austriacus Koken
2013	Diaphus austriacus Schwarzhans p. 165
2013	Diaphus austriacus Schwarzhans and Aguilera p. 122

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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	austriacus	(Koken 1891)

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 austriacus Koken 1891

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

Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Zanclean or 20.45000 to 3.60000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Trinidad and Tobago	Diaphus austriacus (219235)
Langhian	15.98 - 13.82	Trinidad and Tobago	Diaphus austriacus (219234)
Zanclean	5.333 - 3.6	Italy (Sicily)	Diaphus austriacus (223702)