Genus Hygophum Bolin, 1939

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• Hygophum Bolin, R.L. 1939. A review of the myctophid fishes of the Pacific Coast of the United States and of lower California. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin 1(4): 89-156 figs 1-29 [113] [proposed as subgenus of Myctophum Rafinesque, 1810].

  Type species:

   Scopelus hygomii Lütken, 1892 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales: SE oceanic
  • Queensland: NE oceanic, SE oceanic
  • Tasmania: S oceanic, SE oceanic
  • Victoria: S oceanic, SE oceanic
  • Western Australia: NW oceanic, S oceanic, W oceanic

General References

Becker, V.E. 1965. Lanternfishes of the genus Hygophum (Myctophidae, Pisces), systematics and distribution. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Moskva 73: 11-75 figs 1-11 [in Russian; Bur. Comm. Fish. Ichthyol. Lab. Transl. 45]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED