Diaphus rafinesquii (Cocco 1838)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Myctophiformes
- family
- Myctophidae
- genus
- Diaphus
- species
- Diaphus rafinesquii
description
Indo-Pacific; southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Diaphus rafinesquii is part of a species complex that includes Diaphus fulgens (Brauer, 1904) and thus records of the two species from our range require additional research (Benjamin Frable).
Name
- Homonyms
- Diaphus rafinesquii (Cocco 1838)