Myctophiformes
Species
Sampling: 116 out of 254 species have genetic data (in bold)
Species list
- Benthosema fibulatum
- Benthosema glaciale
- Benthosema panamense
- Benthosema pterotum
- Benthosema suborbitale
- Bolinichthys distofax
- Bolinichthys indicus
- Bolinichthys longipes
- Bolinichthys supralateralis
- Centrobranchus nigroocellatus
- Ceratoscopelus maderensis
- Ceratoscopelus townsendi
- Ceratoscopelus warmingii
- Diaphus anderseni
- Diaphus bertelseni
- Diaphus brachycephalus
- Diaphus dumerilii
- Diaphus effulgens
- Diaphus gigas
- Diaphus holti
- Diaphus luetkeni
- Diaphus metopoclampus
- Diaphus mollis
- Diaphus perspicillatus
- Diaphus rafinesquii
- Diaphus subtilis
- Diaphus theta
- Diaphus thiollierei
- Diaphus watasei
- Diogenichthys atlanticus
- Diogenichthys laternatus
- Electrona antarctica
- Electrona carlsbergi
- Electrona risso
- Gonichthys cocco
- Gonichthys tenuiculus
- Gymnoscopelus bolini
- Gymnoscopelus braueri
- Gymnoscopelus fraseri
- Gymnoscopelus hintonoides
- Gymnoscopelus nicholsi
- Gymnoscopelus opisthopterus
- Gymnoscopelus piabilis
- Hygophum atratum
- Hygophum benoiti
- Hygophum hanseni
- Hygophum hygomii
- Hygophum macrochir
- Hygophum proximum
- Hygophum reinhardtii
- Hygophum taaningi
- Krefftichthys anderssoni
- Lampadena anomala
- Lampadena chavesi
- Lampadena luminosa
- Lampadena speculigera
- Lampadena urophaos urophaos
- Lampanyctodes hectoris
- Lampanyctus alatus
- Lampanyctus australis
- Lampanyctus crocodilus
- Lampanyctus festivus
- Lampanyctus intricarius
- Lampanyctus jordani
- Lampanyctus macdonaldi
- Lampanyctus nobilis
- Lampanyctus photonotus
- Lampanyctus pusillus
- Lampanyctus tenuiformis
- Lampichthys procerus
- Lepidophanes guentheri
- Lobianchia dofleini
- Lobianchia gemellarii
- Loweina terminata
- Metelectrona ventralis
- Myctophum asperum
- Myctophum aurolaternatum
- Myctophum lychnobium
- Myctophum nitidulum
- Myctophum punctatum
- Myctophum spinosum
- Nannobrachium achirus
- Nannobrachium atrum
- Nannobrachium cuprarium
- Nannobrachium lineatum
- Nannobrachium regale
- Nannobrachium ritteri
- Notoscopelus bolini
- Notoscopelus caudispinosus
- Notoscopelus elongatus
- Notoscopelus resplendens
- Parvilux ingens
- Protomyctophum andriashevi
- Protomyctophum arcticum
- Protomyctophum bolini
- Protomyctophum choriodon
- Protomyctophum crockeri
- Protomyctophum gemmatum
- Protomyctophum parallelum
- Protomyctophum thompsoni
- Scopelopsis multipunctatus
- Stenobrachius leucopsarus
- Stenobrachius nannochir
- Symbolophorus barnardi
- Symbolophorus boops
- Symbolophorus californiensis
- Symbolophorus evermanni
- Symbolophorus veranyi
- Taaningichthys bathyphilus
- Tarletonbeania crenularis
- Tarletonbeania taylori
- Triphoturus mexicanus
- Triphoturus nigrescens
- Neoscopelus macrolepidotus
- Neoscopelus microchir
- Scopelengys tristis
- Bolinichthys nikolayi
- Bolinichthys photothorax
- Bolinichthys pyrsobolus
- Centrobranchus andreae
- Centrobranchus brevirostris
- Centrobranchus choerocephalus
- Diaphus adenomus
- Diaphus aliciae
- Diaphus antonbruuni
- Diaphus arabicus
- Diaphus basileusi
- Diaphus burtoni
- Diaphus chrysorhynchus
- Diaphus coeruleus
- Diaphus confusus
- Diaphus dahlgreni
- Diaphus danae
- Diaphus dehaveni
- Diaphus diadematus
- Diaphus diademophilus
- Diaphus drachmanni
- Diaphus ehrhorni
- Diaphus faustinoi
- Diaphus fragilis
- Diaphus fulgens
- Diaphus garmani
- Diaphus handi
- Diaphus hudsoni
- Diaphus impostor
- Diaphus jenseni
- Diaphus kapalae
- Diaphus knappi
- Diaphus kora
- Diaphus kuroshio
- Diaphus lobatus
- Diaphus lucidus
- Diaphus lucifrons
- Diaphus malayanus
- Diaphus mascarensis
- Diaphus meadi
- Diaphus megalops
- Diaphus minax
- Diaphus nielseni
- Diaphus ostenfeldi
- Diaphus pacificus
- Diaphus pallidus
- Diaphus parini
- Diaphus parri
- Diaphus phillipsi
- Diaphus problematicus
- Diaphus regani
- Diaphus richardsoni
- Diaphus rivatoni
- Diaphus roei
- Diaphus sagamiensis
- Diaphus schmidti
- Diaphus signatus
- Diaphus similis
- Diaphus splendidus
- Diaphus suborbitalis
- Diaphus taaningi
- Diaphus termophilus
- Diaphus trachops
- Diaphus umbroculus
- Diaphus vanhoeffeni
- Diaphus whitleyi
- Diaphus wisneri
- Diogenichthys panurgus
- Electrona paucirastra
- Electrona subaspera
- Gonichthys barnesi
- Gonichthys venetus
- Gymnoscopelus microlampas
- Hintonia candens
- Hygophum bruuni
- Idiolychnus urolampus
- Lampadena dea
- Lampadena notialis
- Lampadena pontifex
- Lampadena urophaos atlantica
- Lampadena yaquinae
- Lampanyctus acanthurus
- Lampanyctus hubbsi
- Lampanyctus iselinoides
- Lampanyctus lepidolychnus
- Lampanyctus macropterus
- Lampanyctus omostigma
- Lampanyctus parvicauda
- Lampanyctus simulator
- Lampanyctus steinbecki
- Lampanyctus turneri
- Lampanyctus vadulus
- Lepidophanes gaussi
- Loweina interrupta
- Loweina rara
- Metelectrona ahlstromi
- Metelectrona herwigi
- Myctophum affine
- Myctophum brachygnathum
- Myctophum fissunovi
- Myctophum indicum
- Myctophum lunatum
- Myctophum obtusirostre
- Myctophum orientale
- Myctophum ovcharovi
- Myctophum phengodes
- Myctophum selenops
- Nannobrachium bristori
- Nannobrachium crypticum
- Nannobrachium fernae
- Nannobrachium gibbsi
- Nannobrachium hawaiiensis
- Nannobrachium idostigma
- Nannobrachium indicum
- Nannobrachium isaacsi
- Nannobrachium nigrum
- Nannobrachium phyllisae
- Nannobrachium wisneri
- Notolychnus valdiviae
- Notoscopelus japonicus
- Notoscopelus kroyeri
- Parvilux boschmai
- Protomyctophum beckeri
- Protomyctophum chilense
- Protomyctophum luciferum
- Protomyctophum mcginnisi
- Protomyctophum normani
- Protomyctophum subparallelum
- Protomyctophum tenisoni
- Symbolophorus kreffti
- Symbolophorus reversus
- Symbolophorus rufinus
- Taaningichthys minimus
- Taaningichthys paurolychnus
- Triphoturus oculeum
- Neoscopelus porosus
- Scopelengys clarkei
- Solivomer arenidens
Fossil calibrations
- Crown Myctophiformes (Eomyctophum koraense†) 32.02 Ma
- Total group Bolinichthys (Bolinichthys sp.†) 5.33 Ma
Taxonomy
- Class
- Actinopteri
- Subclass
- Neopterygii
- Infraclass
- Teleostei
- Megacohort
- Osteoglossocephalai
- Supercohort
- Clupeocephala
- Cohort
- Euteleosteomorpha
- Subcohort
- Neoteleostei
- Infracohort
- Eurypterygia
- Section
- Ctenosquamata
- Subsection
- Myctophata
- Order
- Myctophiformes
- Family
- Myctophidae
- Neoscopelidae
Downloads
Download Myctophiformes data (JSON format)
Phylogenies
Sequence data
Phylip sequences for Myctophiformes
Nexus file for Myctophiformes (includes character partitions and phylogeny)