Family | Scientific Name | Author | Year | Common Name |
Myctophidae | Notolychnus valdiviae | (Brauer) | 1904 | Topside Lanternfish |
Notolychnus valdiviae
Unique Characters: Two precaudal photophores. Four photophores (supraventral, supraanal 3, Pol, precaudal 2) well above the midlateral line. Specimens usually skinned and photophores often lost. Small species, never over 2.5 cm.
![General Description and Locations of Photophores - Family Myctophidae](https://ncfishes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Myctophid-Photophores.png)
Similar Species: None.
Craddock, J.E. and K.E. Hartel. 2002. Myctophidae. Lanternfishes. Pp 944-951. In The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 2: Bony fishes part 1 (Acipenseridae to Grammatidae). K.E. Carpenter (ed.). FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication No. 5. Rome, Italy. pp. 601-1374.
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