Vinciguerria

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Vinciguerria
Temporal range: Eocene–recent, 48.6–0  Ma [1]
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V. nimbaria pictured
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Stomiiformes
Family: Phosichthyidae
Genus: Vinciguerria
D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896
Species

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Synonyms
  • EovinciguerriaProkofiev, 2002
  • SytchevskiaProkofiev, 2002

Vinciguerria is a genus of lightfishes, family Phosichthyidae. [2] [3] It is named for Dr. Decio Vinciguerra (1856–1934), an Italian ichthyologist. [4]

Included species

There are currently five extant species recognized in this genus: [3]

There are also at least four prehistoric species only known from fossils: [5] [6]

The former fossil genera Eovinciguerria and Sytchevskia have been synonymized with this genus due to their close morphological similarities to it. [6] [7]

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References

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  3. 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Vinciguerria". FishBase . August 2022 version.
  4. Goode, G. Brown; Tarleton H. Bean (1895). Oceanic ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. Special Bulletin of the United States National Museum. Washington, DC.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. Nam, Kye-Soo; Ko, Ju-Yeong; Nazarkin, Mikhail V. (2019). "A new lightfish, †Vinciguerria orientalis, sp. nov. (Teleostei, Stomiiformes, Phosichthyidae), from the middle Miocene of South Korea". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (3): e1625911. Bibcode:2019JVPal..39E5911N. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1625911. S2CID   199637854.
  6. 1 2 Nazarkin, Mikhail V.; Nam, Gi-Soo (2022-01-02). "A Miocene lightfish Vinciguerria sp. (Stomiiformes: Phosichthyidae) from the North-West Pacific with notes on the recent evolution of the genus". Historical Biology. 34 (1): 102–107. Bibcode:2022HBio...34..102N. doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.1900839. ISSN   0891-2963. S2CID   233709473.
  7. A.m, Prokofiev (2002). "THE PHOSICHTHYIDAE (PISCES: STOMIIFORMES) FROM THE EOCENE-MIOCENE OF RUSSIA AND ADJACENT AREAS". Paleontological Journal. ISSN   0031-0301.