taxonID	type	description	language	source
E9318045FFEA8156FCDCFA00D091F986.taxon	description	Figure 1	en	Davis, Matthew P. (2015): Evolutionary Relationships of the Deep-Sea Pearleyes (Aulopiformes: Scopelarchidae) and a New Genus of Pearleye from Antarctic Waters. Copeia 103 (1): 64-71, DOI: 10.1643/CI-14-139, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1643/ci-14-139
E9318045FFEA8156FCDCFA00D091F986.taxon	type_taxon	Type species. — Lagiacrusichthys macropinnis	en	Davis, Matthew P. (2015): Evolutionary Relationships of the Deep-Sea Pearleyes (Aulopiformes: Scopelarchidae) and a New Genus of Pearleye from Antarctic Waters. Copeia 103 (1): 64-71, DOI: 10.1643/CI-14-139, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1643/ci-14-139
E9318045FFEA8156FCDCFA00D091F986.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. — The genus Lagiacrusichthys can be distinguished from all other members of Scorpelarchidae based on the unique combination of the following characters modified from Bussing and Bussing (1966) and Johnson (1974): long anal fin with 35 – 39 anal-fin rays (17 – 30 in other species of Scopelarchidae); dorsal fin small and approximately same size or smaller than adipose fin, with a low dorsal-fin ray count of 5 – 6 (6 – 10 in other species of Scopelarchidae). Habitat and distribution. — Found predominantly in marine waters in the southern hemisphere with a circumpolar distribution in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (Bussing and Bussing, 1966; Johnson, 1974; Post, 1990). Collected predominantly from deep-sea open ocean environments (meso-bathypelagic) at depths ranging from 610 – 2750 meters (Bussing and Bussing, 1966; Johnson, 1974).	en	Davis, Matthew P. (2015): Evolutionary Relationships of the Deep-Sea Pearleyes (Aulopiformes: Scopelarchidae) and a New Genus of Pearleye from Antarctic Waters. Copeia 103 (1): 64-71, DOI: 10.1643/CI-14-139, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1643/ci-14-139
E9318045FFEA8156FCDCFA00D091F986.taxon	etymology	Etymology. — Named for a wyvern, a dragon-like creature from mythology, specifically the sea-wyvern Lagiacrus, known for his fierceness and for inhabiting the deep. Treated as masculine.	en	Davis, Matthew P. (2015): Evolutionary Relationships of the Deep-Sea Pearleyes (Aulopiformes: Scopelarchidae) and a New Genus of Pearleye from Antarctic Waters. Copeia 103 (1): 64-71, DOI: 10.1643/CI-14-139, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1643/ci-14-139
