Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 46(3): 247-250, doi: 10.3750/AIP2016.46.3.08
Light organ anomalies in three species of myctophid fishes (Actinopterygii: Myctophiformes: Myctophidae) from the Pacific coast of Mexico
J. De La Cruz-AgüeroCorresponding author: J. De La Cruz-Agüero © J. De La Cruz-Agüero. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
De La Cruz-Agüero J (2016) Light organ anomalies in three species of myctophid fishes (Actinopterygii: Myctophiformes: Myctophidae) from the Pacific coast of Mexico. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 46(3): 247-250. https://doi.org/10.3750/AIP2016.46.3.08 |  |
Abstract
Despite numerous anomalies that have been reported for many species of fishes, records on deep-water species are scarce and apparently very rare for luminescent organs (i.e., photophores). In presently reported study, we described and illustrated anomalies in the number and placement of primary light organs in three lanternfish species: the Mexican lampfish, Triphoturus mexicanus (Gilbert, 1890); the highseas lampfish, Triphoturus nigrescens (Brauer, 1904); and the popeye lampfish, Bolinichthys longipes (Brauer, 1906), collected off the Pacific coast of Mexico.
Keywords
extraneous photophores, lanternfishes, Baja California Sur