WoRMS taxon details

Diaphus rafinesquii (Cocco, 1838)

126596  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126596)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Nyctophus rafinesquii Cocco, 1838) Cocco, A. (1838). Su di alcuni salmonidi del mare di Messina. Littera del Prof. Anastasio Cocco al Ch. Principe D. Carlo Luciano Bonaparte. <em>Nuov. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bologna.</em> Year 1. 2 (9): 161-194, Pls. 5-8.
page(s): 180 [20], Pl. 7 (fig. 7) [details]   
Distribution Western Atlantic: north of the Gulf Stream  
Distribution Western Atlantic: north of the Gulf Stream [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Diaphus rafinesquii (Cocco, 1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126596 on 2024-03-19
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description  (of Nyctophus rafinesquii Cocco, 1838) Cocco, A. (1838). Su di alcuni salmonidi del mare di Messina. Littera del Prof. Anastasio Cocco al Ch. Principe D. Carlo Luciano Bonaparte. <em>Nuov. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bologna.</em> Year 1. 2 (9): 161-194, Pls. 5-8.
page(s): 180 [20], Pl. 7 (fig. 7) [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

context source (Bermuda) Karnella, C. (1987). Family Myctophidae, lanternfishes In: Biology of midwater fishes of the Bermuda ocean acre, Smithsonian contributions to zoology, number 452. . Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. , (452): 51-168 [details]   

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]   

additional source Welshman, D.; Kohler, S; Black, J.; and L. Van Guelpen. (2003). An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details]   

additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]   

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Distribution Western Atlantic: north of the Gulf Stream [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Habitat Found at depths of 40- 1080 m. [details]

Reproduction Spawns in Bermuda during fall and winter  [details]
LanguageName 
English white-spotted lantern fish  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Λευκόστικτο φανόψαρο  [details]