Vinciguerria

Vinciguerria
	V. nimbaria pictured
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Stomiiformes
Family:	Phosichthyidae
Genus:	Vinciguerria; D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896
Genera
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Vinciguerria is a genus of bristlemouths.^[1] It is named for Dr. Decio Vinciguerra (1856-1934), an Italian ichthyologist.^[2]

Included species

There are currently five extant species and two extinct species recognized in this genus:^[3]^[4]

Vinciguerria attenuata (Cocco, 1838) (Slender lightfish)
Vinciguerria lucetia (Garman, 1899) (Panama lightfish)
Vinciguerria mabahiss R. K. Johnson & Feltes, 1984
Vinciguerria nimbaria (D. S. Jordan & T. M. Williams, 1895) (Oceanic lightfish)
Vinciguerria poweriae (Cocco, 1838) (Power's deep-water bristle-mouth fish)
†Vinciguerria merklini (Danilchenko, 1946)
†Vinciguerria orientalis (Nam, Ko & Nazarkin, 2019)

^ "Vinciguerria (Genus)". ZipcodeZoo. 2 January 2010. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
^ Goode, G. Brown; Tarleton H. Bean (1895). Oceanic ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. Special Bulletin of the United States National Museum. Washington, DC.
^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Vinciguerria in FishBase. February 2012 version.
^ Nam, Kye-Soo; Ko, Ju-Yeong; Nazarkin, Mikhail V. (2019). "A new lightfish, †Vinciguerria orientalis, sp. nov. (Teleostei, Stomiiformes, Phosichthyidae), from the middle Miocene of South Korea". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (3): e1625911. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1625911.

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