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Diaphus excisus

Osteichthyes - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae

Taxonomy

Scopelus excisus was named by Frost (1934). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loc 1372, which is in a Chattian marine horizon in New Zealand.

It was recombined as Diaphus (Lamprossa) excisus by Schwarzhans (1980); it was recombined as Diaphus excisus by Schwarzhans (2019), Schwarzhans and Nielsen (2021).

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
1934	Scopelus excisus Frost p. 134 figs. Fig. 7
1980	Diaphus (Lamprossa) excisus Schwarzhans p. 74
2019	Diaphus excisus Schwarzhans p. 131
2021	Diaphus excisus Schwarzhans and Nielsen p. 22

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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	excisus	()

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 excisus Frost 1934

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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, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Chattian to the top of the Kapitean or 27.30000 to 5.33300 Ma

Collections (7 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	New Zealand (North Island)	Scopelus excisus (type locality: 204337)
Otaian	21.7 - 18.7	New Zealand (South Island)	Diaphus excisus (219590 219591)
Clifdenian	15.9 - 15.1	New Zealand (North Island)	Diaphus excisus (219536)
Tongaporutuan	11.04 - 7.2	New Zealand (North Island)	Diaphus excisus (219269 219553)
Kapitean	7.2 - 5.333	New Zealand	Scopelus excisus (162461)