Diaphus meadi, Nafpaktitis, 1978

D. meadi Nafpaktitis, 1978 View in CoL

Diaphus meadi Nafpaktitis, 1978 View in CoL

Mead's lanternfish references general statements on the distribution of this species:

o Hulley (1981): …circumglobally distributed in the region of the Subtropical Convergence … In the western South Atlantic …distributed between 32°05'S and 40°46'S .

o Fricke et al. (2024): circumglobal in Southern Hemisphere

EEZ-AR references mere listings for Argentina:

o Cousseau & Rosso (2019)

o Mabragaña & Cousseau (2021): ref. to Figueroa (2019)

miscellanea: o Figueroa (2019): drawing based key of fishes from the SW Atlantic Ocean without localities or specimens | for this species references only at family level specimens o none status While still lacking a published evidence-based record, a distribution of this species in EEZ-AR should not be implied.

EEZ-UY references type localities from EEZ-UY:

o Nafpaktitis (1978): paratypes, ZMUC 2334936-43 View Materials , Atlantis II 1441

o Koerber (2023): on overlooked records from EEZ-UY, ref. to Nafpaktitis (1978)

specimens ZMH collection:

o 103385 197/66 Hulley o 106805 30/68 Hulley status Evidence-based confirmation of previous records from EEZ-UY.

D. metopoclampus (Cocco, 1829) Bluntnose lanternfish Myctophum metopoclampum Cocco, 1829

Diaphus metopoclampus (Cocco, 1829) Drawing from Fraser-Brunner (1949).

references general statements on the distribution of this species:

o Hulley (1981): In the Atlantic , it has a biantitropical or bipolar questionably temperate-semisubtropical pattern. … western South Atlantic , north of the Subtropical Convergence. … In the South Atlantic, it is generally taken between about 27°S and 40°S …

o Fricke et al. (2024): circumglobal (including Mediterranean Sea)

EEZ-AR references mere listings for Argentina:

o Cousseau & Rosso (2019)

o Mabragaña & Cousseau (2021): sub D. metopoclampum , ref. to Cousseau et al. (2010) and Figueroa (2019)

miscellanea:

o Cousseau et al. (2010): list of species from the SW Atlantic Ocean without localities or specimens o Figueroa (2019): drawing based key of fishes from the SW Atlantic Ocean without localities or specimens | for this species references only at family level specimens o none status While still lacking a published evidence-based record, a distribution of this species in EEZ-AR should not be implied.

EEZ-UY references mere listings for Uruguay: o Nion et al. (2002, 2016)

specimens ZMH collection:

o 103650 197/66 Krefft status Evidence-based confirmation of previous records from EEZ-UY.