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Myctophidae Gill 1893

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Grasmeent 80, 1357 JJ Almere, The Netherlands
  • 2. Curator Emeritus, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.
  • 3. Im Ramstal 76, 97922 Lauda-Königshofen, Germany & Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, D- 70191 Stuttgart, Germany [temporarily out of office]

Description

Family Myctophidae Gill 1893

Name in prevailing recent practice, Article 35.5

Scopelini Bonaparte 1831:164 [ref. 4978] (subfamily) Scopelus [Richardson 1846:301 [ref. 3742] used Scopelinidae]

Myctophidae Gill 1893b:131 [ref. 26255] (family) Myctophum [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; Myctophidae used as valid by: Jordan 1923 [ref. 2421], Parr 1928 [ref. 3368], Whitley 1936a [ref. 13756], Schultz with Stern 1948 [ref. 31938], Bertin & Arambourg 1958, Bailey et al. 1960 [ref. 27285], Lagler, Bardach & Miller 1962, Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers 1966 [ref. 26856], Kamohara 1967, McAllister 1968 [ref. 26854], Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Shiino 1976, Wisner 1976 [ref. 19273], Lagler, Bardach, Miller & May Passino 1977, Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Whitehead et al. (1984) [ref. 13675], Smith & Heemstra 1986 [ref. 5715], Paxton et al. 1989 [ref. 12442], McAllister 1990 [ref. 14674], Quéro et al. 1990 [ref. 15946], Robins et al. 1991a [ref. 14237], Becker 1992 [ref. 20772], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Zahuranec 2000 [ref. 24618], Chen (2002) [ref. 26587], Menezes et al. 2003 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004 [ref. 27807], Springer & Johnson 2004 [ref. 33199], Hoese et al. 2006, Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Paxton & Bray 2008 [ref. 30633], Fierstine, Huddleston & Takeuchi 2012]

Scopelopsinae Whitley 1932b:333 [ref. 4674] (subfamily) Scopelopsis [name only, used as valid before 2000?; not available]

Electronini Wissner 1963:28 [ref. 4759] (tribe) Electrona

Lampanyctinae Paxton 1972:45 [ref. 3394] (subfamily) Lampanyctus [also as tribe Lampanyctini]

Gonichthyini Paxton 1972:43 [ref. 3394] (tribe) Gonichthys

Notolychnini Paxton 1972:45 [ref. 3394] (tribe) Notolychnus

Diaphini Paxton 1972:48 [ref. 3394] (tribe) Diaphus

Gymnoscopelini Paxton 1972:49 [ref. 3394] (tribe) Gymnoscopelus

Notes

Published as part of Laan, Richard Van Der, Eschmeyer, William N. & Fricke, Ronald, 2014, Family-group names of Recent fishes, pp. 1-230 in Zootaxa 3882 (2) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7047777

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gill
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Myctophiformes
Family
Myctophidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Myctophidae Gill, 1893 sec. Laan, Eschmeyer & Fricke, 2014

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