Diaphus basileusi

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Diaphus basileusi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Myctophiformes
Family: Myctophidae
Genus: Diaphus
Species:
D. basileusi
Binomial name
Diaphus basileusi
Becker & Prut'ko, 1984

Diaphus basileusi is a species of lanternfish found in the Western Indian Ocean. [1]

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Size

This species reaches a length of 13.0 cm (5.1 in). [2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Basil Nafpaktitis (1929–2015), because of his investigations of myctophid systematics, especially of the genus Diaphus . [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Bekker, V.E. and V.G. Prut'ko, 1984. A new species of the genus Diaphus (Myctophidae) from the northeastern Indian Ocean. J. Ichthyol. 24(6):82–87. .
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Diaphus basileusi" in FishBase . February 2015 version.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order MYCTOPHIFORMES (Lanternfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 1 March 2023.


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