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Dasyscopelus
Genus of fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dasyscopelus is a genus of lanternfish, family Myctophidae.[1][2][3]
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Taxonomy
Dasyscopelus was originally described as a subgenus of Scopelus (now Myctophum) by Albert Günther in 1864. Later on, starting from Bolin (1959), it was treated as a synonym of Myctophum. Dasyscopelus was resurrected and treated as full genus based on molecular data by Martin and colleagues in 2018.[1][3] There are no definite morphological characters distinguishing these genera.[3]
Species
There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Dasyscopelus asper (Richardson, 1845) – prickly lanternfish
- Dasyscopelus obtusirostris (Tåning, 1928) – bluntsnout lanternfish
- Dasyscopelus selenops (Tåning, 1928) – Wisner's lantern fish
- Dasyscopelus spinosus (Steindachner, 1867) – spiny lantern fish
References
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