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Protomyctophum thompsoni
Description
Protomyctophum thompsoni (Chapman, 1944).
Bigeye Lanternfish, Northern Flashlightfish, or Northern Lanternfish. To 11.2 cm (4.4 in) TL (DFO). Northern Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984), to southern Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to central California (34°29’N, 122°28’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Depth: surface to 1,370 m (4,495 ft) (min.: Wisner 1976; max.: Sheiko and Fedorov 2000).
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 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Myctophidae
- Genus
- Protomyctophum
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Myctophiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Chapman
- Species
- thompsoni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Protomyctophum thompsoni (Chapman, 1944) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Wisner, R. L. (1976) The taxonomy and distribution of lanternfishes (family Myctophidae) of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Navy Ocean Research and Development Activity, Report 3.
- Sheiko, B. A. & Fedorov, V. V. (2000) Chapter 1. Class Cephalaspidomorphi - Lampreys. Class Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes. Class Holocephali - Chimaeras. Class Osteichthyes - Bony fishes. In: Catalog of Vertebrates of Kamchatka and Adjacent Waters. Kamchatsky Pechatny Dvor, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, pp. 7 - 69 [In Russian.]