Danaphos

Danaphos
Bottlelights
Temporal range: Middle Eocene to Present
37–0 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Stomiiformes
Family: Sternoptychidae
Subfamily: Maurolicinae
Genus: Danaphos
Bruun, 1931

Danaphos is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus which belongs in the family Sternoptychidae. A common name is bottlelights.

Only two extant species are placed here, one of them of questionable validity[verification needed] valid:[1]

  • Danaphos asteroscopus Bruun, 1931 (disputed)
  • Danaphos oculatus (Garman, 1899) – Bigeye Lightfish

Fossils of bottlelights show that the genus was already distinct in the Late Eocene, more than 35 million years ago.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ ITIS (2004), FishBase [2009]
  2. ^ Sepkoski (2002)

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