Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Superordo: Stenopterygii
Ordo: Stomiiformes
Subordo: Gonostomatoidei
Familia: Phosichthyidae
Genus: Vinciguerria
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]
Vinciguerria attenuata (Cocco, 1838) (Slender lightfish)
Vinciguerria lucetia (Garman, 1899) (Panama lightfish)
Vinciguerria mabahiss R. K. Johnson & Feltes, 1984
Vinciguerria nimbaria (D. S. Jordan & T. M. Williams, 1895) (Oceanic lightfish)
Vinciguerria poweriae (Cocco, 1838) (Power's deep-water bristle-mouth fish)
There are also at least two prehistoric species only known from fossils:[5]
†Vinciguerria merklini (Danilchenko, 1946)
†Vinciguerria orientalis Nam, Ko & Nazarkin, 2019
References
"Vinciguerria Jordan and Evermann 1895". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Vinciguerria". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). Species of Vinciguerria in FishBase. August 2022 version.
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.
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.
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