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Thiolliere'S Lanternfish

Diaphus thiollierei Fowler 1934

Diaphus thiollierei

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Diaphus thiollierei, the Thiolliere's lanternfish, is a species of lanternfish found in the Indo-Pacific.[1]

Size

This species reaches a length of 10.0 cm (3.9 in).[2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Victor Joseph de l’Isle Thiollière (1801–1859), a French civil engineer, geologist and paleoichthyologist, who reported on the fishes collected by French priest and biologist Xavier Montrouzier (1820–1897) from the Woodlark Archipelago in Papua, New Guinea in 1857[3]

References

  1. ^ Paxton, J.R., D.F. Hoese, G.R. Allen and J.E. Hanley, 1989. Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 665 p.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Diaphus thiollierei" 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 thiollierei: Brief Summary

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Diaphus thiollierei, the Thiolliere's lanternfish, is a species of lanternfish found in the Indo-Pacific.

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