Photostomias lucingens Kenaley 2009
Holotype of Photostomias lucingens, USNM 219291, from off leeward Oahu, Hawaii, Oahu, Hawaii, United States, Hawaiian Islands, Pacific. Source: Sandra Raredon / Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Fishes. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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Bray, D.J. 2017, Photostomias lucingens in Fishes of Australia, accessed 08 Dec 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/2705
Photostomias lucingens Kenaley 2009
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Distribution |
Recorded in the Australian EEZ from the Lord Howe Rise and the Norfolk Ridge, south of Norfolk Island, in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the Western-Central Pacific. |
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Etymology |
The specific name lucingens is from the Latin lucis for 'light' and ingens meaning ‘of remarkable size’, in reference to the extreme size of the postorbital photophore in males. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2017 |
Photostomias lucingens Kenaley 2009
References
Kenaley, C.P. 2009. Revision of Indo-Pacific species of the loosejaw dragonfish genus Photostomias (Teleostei: Stomiidae: Malacosteinae). Copeia 1: 175-189.
