Diaphus taaningi

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Hulley, P. |date=2015 |title=Diaphus taaningi |volume=2015 |page=e.T15598809A15603735 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T15598809A15603735.en |access-date=7 January 2024}}

| taxon = Diaphus taaningi

| authority = Norman, 1930

}}

Diaphus taaningi, the slopewater lanternfish, is a species of lanternfish found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.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.

Description

This species reaches a length of {{convert|7.0|cm|in|abbr=on}}.{{FishBase |genus= Diaphus |species= taaningi| month = February | year = 2015}}

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Danish lanternfish expert Åge Vedel Tåning (1890–1958), who loaned the type specimens to Norman and provided additional information about them.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/myctophiformes/ | title =Order MYCTOPHIFORMES (Lanternfishes) | access-date= 1 March 2023 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}

References

Category:Myctophidae

Category:Taxa named by John Roxborough Norman

Category:Fish described in 1930

Category:Fish of the East Atlantic