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Diaphus

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	35614	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35614

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Myctophiformes : Myctophidae : Diaphus

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
superclass	Actinopterygii
class	Actinopteri
subclass	Neopterygii
-	Teleosteomorpha	Arratia et al. 2004
-	Teleostei
-	Osteoglossocephalai
-	Clupeocephala	Patterson and Rosen 1977
-	Euteleosteomorpha
-	Neoteleostei	Rosen 1973
-	Eurypterygia
-	Ctenosquamata
-	Myctophata
order	Myctophiformes	Regan 1911
family	Myctophidae	Gill 1893
subfamily	Lampanyctinae	Paxton 1972
genus	Diaphus	Eigenmann 1890

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Diaphus	genus	belongs to Myctophinae	stated without evidence	Kalabis, 1948
Diaphus	genus	belongs to Myctophidae	stated without evidence	Kalabis and Schultz, 1974
Diaphus	genus	belongs to Myctophiformes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Diaphus	genus	belongs to Myctophidae	stated with evidence	Girone et al., 2006
Diaphus	genus	belongs to Lampanyctinae	stated with evidence	Fierstine et al., 2012
Diaphus	genus	belongs to Myctophidae	stated without evidence	Lin et al., 2017

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

13 (45%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Myctophiformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Myctophiformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Diaphus alcoholicus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		5	33.9 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Diaphus bolini ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Diaphus brachycephalus species	listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Diaphus crassus species	listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Diaphus dumerilii species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Diaphus duosensitivus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Diaphus edwardsi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Diaphus holti species	listed (PBDB)	Small Lantern Fish	5	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Diaphus italicus species	listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Diaphus larteti ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Diaphus longirostris ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Diaphus marambionis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Diaphus meniliticus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Diaphus microsomus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Diaphus molossus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Diaphus perspicillatoides ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Diaphus polysarcus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Diaphus prisismetallis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Diaphus problematicus species	listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Diaphus rafinesqui species	listed (PBDB)		3	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Diaphus regani species	listed (PBDB)		4	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Diaphus sauvagei ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	7.25 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene
Diaphus splendidus species	listed (PBDB)	Horned Lanternfish	10	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Diaphus stafforaensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Diaphus sulcatus species	listed (PBDB)		2	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Diaphus taaningi species	listed (PBDB)	Slopewater Lanternfish	8	7.25 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Diaphus theta species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Diaphus vexillifer ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1890	Diaphus Eigenmann
1948	Diaphus Kalabis p. 140
1974	Diaphus Kalabis and Schultz p. 189
1983	Diaphus Nolf and Steurbaut p. 153
1995	Diaphus Brzobohaty and Nolf p. 259
1998	Diaphus Stringer p. 150

Year	Name and Author
2002	Diaphus Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Diaphus Girone et al. p. 655
2012	Diaphus Fierstine et al. p. 52
2017	Diaphus Lin et al. p. 16
2017	Diaphus Schwarzhans et al. p. 153

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Kalabis V. (1948) Ryby se svetelnymi organy z moravskeho paleogenu (Menilitovych bridlic), Casopis zemskeho musea v Brne 1947, 131-159

Kalabis V., Schultz O. (1974) Die Fischfauna der paläogenen Menilitschichten von Speitseh in Mähren, ČSSR, Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 78, 183-192

Nolf D., Steurbaut E. (1983) Revision des otolithes de teleosteens du Tortonien stratotypique et de Montegibbio (Miocene Superieur d'Italie Septentrionale), Mededelingen van de Werkgroep voor Tertiaire en Kwartaire Geologie 20 4, 143-197

Brzobohaty R., Nolf D. (1995) Diaphus otoliths from the European Oligocene (Myctophidae, Teleostei), Bulletin de l'Istitute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 65, 257-268

Stringer G. L. (1998) Otolith-based fishes form the Bowden Shell Bed (Pliocene) of Jamaica: Systematics and Palaeoecology, Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology 35 1-4, 147-160

Girone A., Nolf D., et al (2006) Pleistocene fish otoliths from the Mediterranean Basin: a synthesis, Geobios 39, 651-671

Fierstine H. L., Huddleston R. W., et al (2012) Catalog of the Neogene bony fishes of California: A ystematic inventory of all published accounts, Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 159, 1-206

Lin C.-H., Brzobohaty R., et al (2017) Tortonian teleost otoliths from northern Italy: taxonomic synthesis and stratigraphic significance, European Journal of Taxonomy 322, 1-44 doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.322

Schwarzhans W., Mörs T., et al (2017) Before the freeze: otoliths from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica, reveal dominance of gadiform fishes (Teleostei), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15 2, 147-179 doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1151958

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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