Melamphaes typhlops

Melamphaes typhlops

Taxonavigation: Berycoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Berycimorphaceae Ordo: Beryciformes Subordo: Berycoidei

Familia: Melamphaidae
Genus: Melamphaes
Species: Melamphaes typhlops

Name

Melamphaes typhlops (Lowe, 1843)

• Neotype: BMNH 1864.11.8.1.
  • Neotype designated by Ebeling (1962).

Type locality: Off Madeira.

Synonyms

• Metopias typhlops Lowe, 1843
• Melamphaes crassicauda Koefoed, 1953

References

• Ebeling, A.W. 1962. Melamphaidae I. Systematics and zoogeography of the species in the bathypelagic fish genus Melamphaes Günther. Dana Report, 58: 1–164. Reference page. 
• Kotlyar, A.N. 2016. Revision of the Genus Melamphaes (Melamphaidae). 5. Oligo-Raker Species: M. indicus, M. eurous, and M. typhlops. Voprosy Ikhtiologii 56(1): 22–33. / Journal of Ichthyology 56(1): 19–30.DOI: 10.1134/S0032945216010057 Reference page. 
• Lowe, R.T. 1843. Notices of fishes newly observed or discovered in Madeira during the years 1840, 1841, and 1842. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 11: 81–95. BHL page 82. Reference page. 

Links

• Melamphaes typhlops in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2023. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Melamphaes typhlops in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2023. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2023.