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Diaphus theta Eigenmann & Eigenmann 1890
Description
Diaphus theta Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1890.
California Headlightfish. To 11.7 cm (4.6 in) SL (Shelekhov 2004). Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002), and southern Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Depth: surface (Childress and Nygaard 1973) to 4,100 m (13,448 ft) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California); typically above 800 m (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Myctophidae
- Genus
- Diaphus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Myctophiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Eigenmann & Eigenmann
- Species
- theta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Diaphus theta Eigenmann, 1890 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Shelekhov, V. A. (2004) Results of otolith microstructure analysis, the growth rate, and life span of Diaphus theta (Myctophidae). Journal of Ichthyology, 44, 616 - 623.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Childress, J. J. & Nygaard, M. N. (1973) The chemical composition of midwater fishes as a function of depth of occurrence off southern California. Deep-Sea Research, 20, 1093 - 1109.