Vinciguerria is a genus of lightfishes, family Phosichthyidae.[2][3] It is named for Dr. Decio Vinciguerra (1856–1934), an Italian ichthyologist.[4]
| Vinciguerria Temporal range: Eocene–recent,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Stomiiformes |
| Family: | Phosichthyidae |
| Genus: | Vinciguerria D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896 |
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Included species
editThere 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
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Vinciguerria". 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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ 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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