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Diaphus rafinesquii (Cocco, 1838) 
AphiaID: 126596

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Myctophiformes (Order) > Myctophidae (Family) > Diaphus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Diaphus Eigenmann, 1890
Synonymised
taxa
  Collettia rafinesquei (Cocco, 1838) (misspelling)
Collettia rafinesquii (Cocco, 1838)
Diaphus intermedius Borodin, 1930
Diaphus rafinesquei (Cocco, 1838) (misspelling)
Myctophum rafinesquei (Cocco, 1838) (misspelling)
Myctophum rafinesquii (Cocco, 1838)
Nyctophus rafinesquii Cocco, 1838
Scopelus rafinesqui (Cocco, 1838) (misspelling)
Scopelus rafinesquii (Cocco, 1838)
Sources  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, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

additional source: Welshman, D., S. Kohler, J. Black 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: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [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: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

from synonym: BIOCEAN, available online at http://www.ifremer.fr/biocean/ [details] [view taxon]

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

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Modern Greek (1453-) Λευκόστικτο φανόψαρο  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Western Atlantic: north of the Gulf Stream [details]

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

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Reproduction: Spawns in Bermuda during fall and winter  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126596
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Diaphus rafinesquii (Cocco, 1838). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126596 on 2013-05-25
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