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Diaphus basileusi Becker & Prut'ko 1984

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Diagnostic Description

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Inner row teeth of lower jaw considerably enlarged and equidistant from one another; dorsal-nasal gland about equal in size to the trunk photophore, not immersed in tissue underlay, aligned sideways and fully disconnected from ventral-nasal gland; suborbital and anterorbital glands and hook-shaped teeth in posterior part of upper jaw missing (Ref. 43965).
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Morphology

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 15; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 14 - 15; Vertebrae: 35
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Diaphus basileusi

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Diaphus basileusi is a species of lanternfish found in the Western Indian Ocean. [1]

Size

This species reaches a length of 13.0 cm (5.1 in).[2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Basil Nafpaktitis (1929–2015), because of his investigations of myctophid systematics, especially of the genus Diaphus.[3]

References

  1. ^ Bekker, V.E. and V.G. Prut'ko, 1984. A new species of the genus Diaphus (Myctophidae) from the northeastern Indian Ocean. J. Ichthyol. 24(6):82–87. .
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Diaphus basileusi" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
  3. ^ 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.
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Diaphus basileusi: Brief Summary

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Diaphus basileusi is a species of lanternfish found in the Western Indian Ocean.

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Habitat

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Known from seamounts and knolls

Reference

Stocks, K. 2009. Seamounts Online: an online information system for seamount biology. Version 2009-1. World Wide Web electronic publication.

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