Diaphus

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|55|0}}
Early Eocene to present{{cite journal

|last=Sepkoski

|first=Jack

|author-link= Jack Sepkoski

|title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera

|journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology

|volume=363

|pages=1–560

|date=2002

|url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class

|access-date=2007-12-25

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class

|archive-date=2011-07-23

}}

| image = Diaphus metopoclampus.jpg

| image_caption = Spothead lantern fish (D. metopoclampus)

| taxon = Diaphus

| authority = C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1890

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 79 species (see text)

}}

File:Diaphus effulgens.jpg (D. effulgens)]]

Diaphus is a genus of lanternfishes. It is the most species-rich lanternfish genus.

Species

There are 79 recognized species:{{FishBase genus | genus = Diaphus| month = December | year = 2024}}

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References

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{{Cof record|genid=4468 |title=Diaphus |date=30 March 2017 |access-date=12 April 2017}}

{{cite journal |last1=Nafpaktitis|first1=Basil G.|last2=Robertson|first2=Don A.|last3=Paxton|first3=John R.|title=Four new species of the lanternfish genus Diaphus (Myctophidae) from the Indo-Pacific|journal=New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research |date=1995 |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=335–344 |doi=10.1080/00288330.1995.9516668|doi-access=free|bibcode=1995NZJMF..29..335N }}

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Category:Myctophidae

Category:Extant Eocene first appearances

Category:Marine fish genera

Category:Taxa named by Carl H. Eigenmann

Category:Taxa named by Rosa Smith Eigenmann