Diaphus thiollierei

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Diaphus thiollierei
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Myctophiformes
Family: Myctophidae
Genus: Diaphus
Species:
D. thiollierei
Binomial name
Diaphus thiollierei
Fowler, 1934

Diaphus thiollierei, also known as Thiolliere's lanternfish, is a species of lanternfish found in the Indo-Pacific. [2]

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Description

This species reaches a length of 10.0 cm (3.9 in). [3]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Victor Joseph de l’Isle Thiollière (1801–1859), a French civil engineer, geologist and paleoichthyologist, who reported on the fishes collected by French priest and biologist Xavier Montrouzier (1820–1897) from the Woodlark Archipelago in Papua, New Guinea in 1857 [4]

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References

  1. Williams, A. (2019). "Diaphus thiollierei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019: e.T130286757A130414230. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T130286757A130414230.en . Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  2. Paxton, J.R., D.F. Hoese, G.R. Allen and J.E. Hanley, 1989. Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 665 p.
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Diaphus thiollierei" in FishBase . February 2015 version.
  4. 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.