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Myctophum affine

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2023
Entity authorityQ1107378 ↗
Source-derived summary

Myctophum affine, the metallic lanternfish, is a species of lanternfish native to the Atlantic Ocean. Myctophum affine grows to a length of 7.9 centimetres (3.1 in) SL.

Description

Phenotypic observations of Myctophum affine presume that males carry dorsal luminous scales, while females of the species have luminous ventral scales. It is stated that males typically possess seven or eight luminous dorsal scales, while females usually have three to four luminous ventral scales. The luminous scales of male Myctophum affine begin to develop at smaller sizes than those of the female (Gibbs, 1957).

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Myctophum affine". FishBase. April 2012 version.

Gibbs, R. H. (1957). A taxonomic analysis of Myctophum affine and M. nitidulum, two lantern-fishes previously synonymized, in the western North Atlantic.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 19, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q1107378. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1957 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Myctophum affine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.