Idiolychnus urolampus

Taxonavigation: Myctophiformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Superordo: Scopelomorpha Ordo: Myctophiformes

Familia: Myctophidae
Genus: Idiolychnus
Species: Idiolychnus urolampus

Name

Idiolychnus urolampus (Gilbert & Cramer, 1897)

• Syntypes: CAS-SU 4926 (3); USNM 47709 (3), 47717 (1).

Type locality: Hawaiian Islands, Albatross station 3467 and 3472, depth 310 and 295 fathoms.

Synonyms

• Diaphus urolampus Gilbert & Cramer, 1897

References

• Gilbert, C.H. & Cramer, F. 1897. Report on the fishes dredged in deep water near the Hawaiian Islands, with descriptions and figures of twenty-three new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 19(1114): 403–435, Pls. 36–48. Reference page. 
• Nafpaktitis, B.G. & Paxton, J.R. 1978. Idiolychnus, a new genus of Myctophidae based on Diaphus urolampus. Copeia 1978(3): 492–497. Reference page. 
• Schwarzhans, W. 2013. A comparative morphological study of the Recent otoliths of the genera Diaphus, Idiolychnus and Lobianchia (Myctophidae). Palaeo Ichthyologica 13: 41-82. Reference page. 

Links

• Idiolychnus urolampus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Idiolychnus urolampus in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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