Diaphus lucidus

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| image = Diaphus_lucidus.jpg

| image_caption = From Oceanic Ichthyology by G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean, 1896

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Hulley, P. |date=2015 |title=Diaphus lucidus |volume=2015 |page=e.T15598672A15603705 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T15598672A15603705.en |access-date=7 January 2024}}

| taxon = Diaphus lucidus

| authority = (Goode and Bean, 1896)

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• Aethoprora lucida Goode & Bean, 1896
• Diaphus lucida (Goode & Bean, 1896)
• Diaphus monodi Fowler, 1934
• Diaphus reidi Fowler, 1934
• Diaphus altifrons Kulikova, 1961

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Diaphus lucidus, the spotlight lanternfish, is a species of lanternfish

found worldwide.

Hulley, P.A., 1990. Myctophidae. p. 398-467. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI; Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1.