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Ichthyococcus Ovatus
Ichthyococcus ovatus is a lightfish of the genus ''Ichthyococcus ''Ichthyococcus'' are a genus of lightfishes. It is one of seven genera in the family Phosichthyidae. Included species There are currently seven recognized species in this genus: * ''Ichthyococcus australis'' Mukhacheva, 1980 (Southern lightfi ...''.http://www.fishbase.gr/summary/speciessummary.php?id=1804 Ichthyococcus ovatus info on Fishbase References Ichthyococcus Fish described in 1838 Taxa named by Anastasio Cocco {{Stomiiformes-stub ...
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Anastasio Cocco
Anastasio Cocco (29 August 1799, Messina – 26 February 1854, Messina) was an Italian naturalist who specialized in marine biology. Cocco was a pharmacist. He was especially interested in fish and described several taxa from the Straits of Messina. In 1852 his friend the German scientist Eduard Rüppell named a fish ''Microichthys coccoi'' to honor his name. He was a friend and correspondent of many other naturalists notably Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Antoine Risso Giuseppe Antonio Risso (8 April 1777 – 25 August 1845), called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard and naturalist. Risso was born in the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published ' (1810), ' (182 ... and August David Krohn. Works Partial list * Cocco, A. 1829. Su di alcuni pesci de'mari di Messina. ''Giornale di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti per la Sicilia'' (Palermo) 7 26(77): 138–147 46 Contains the description of Argyropelecus hemigymnus Cocco, 1829 the Halfnaked H ...
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Phosichthyidae
Lightfishes are small stomiiform fishes in the family Phosichthyidae The earliest fossils of lightfishes are from Oligocene-aged Paratethyan marine strata in the Czech Republic. They are very small fishes found in oceans throughout the world: most species grow no longer than 10 cm, while those in the genus ''Vinciguerria'' only reach 4 cm or so. They make up for their small size with abundant numbers: ''Vinciguerria'' is thought — with the possible exception of ''Cyclothone'' — to be the most abundant genus of vertebrates. Deep-sea trawls of the Humboldt Current in the southeast Pacific have found that lightfishes make up 85% by mass of mesopelagic fishes, with ''Vinciguerria lucetia'' by far the most numerous species. They are bioluminescent Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by living organisms. It is a form of chemiluminescence. Bioluminescence occurs widely in marine vertebrates and invertebrates, as well as in some Fungus, fun ...
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Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. '' Panthera leo'' (lion) and '' Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. phylogenetic analysis should c ...
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Ichthyococcus
''Ichthyococcus'' are a genus of lightfishes. It is one of seven genera in the family Phosichthyidae. Included species There are currently seven recognized species in this genus: * ''Ichthyococcus australis'' Mukhacheva, 1980 (Southern lightfish) * ''Ichthyococcus elongatus'' S. Imai, 1941 (Slim lightfish) * ''Ichthyococcus intermedius'' Mukhacheva, 1980 (Intermediate lightfish) * ''Ichthyococcus irregularis'' Rechnitzer & J. E. Böhlke, 1958 (Bulldog lightfish) * '' Ichthyococcus ovatus'' (Cocco, 1838) (Lightfish) * ''Ichthyococcus parini'' Mukhacheva, 1980 * ''Ichthyococcus polli ''Ichthyococcus polli'' is a lightfish of the genus '' Ichthyococcus''.http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=274956 info on WoRMS References Ichthyococcus Fish described in 1963 {{Stomiiformes-stub ...'' Blache, 1963 References Marine fish genera Ray-finned fish genera Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte {{Stomiiformes-stub ...
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Fish Described In 1838
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of living fish species are ray-finned fish, belonging to the class Actinopterygii, with around 99% of those being teleosts. The earliest organisms that can be classified as fish were soft-bodied chordates that first appeared during the Cambrian period. Although they lacked a true spine, they possessed notochords which allowed them to be more agile than their invertebrate counterparts. Fish would continue to evolve through the Paleozoic era, diversifying into a wide variety of forms. Many fish of the Paleozoic developed external armor that protected them from predators. The first fish with jaws appeared in the Silurian period, after which many (such as sharks) became formidable marine predators rather than just the prey of arthropods. Most fis ...
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