Vinciguerria Explained

Vinciguerria is a genus of lightfishes, family Phosichthyidae.

It is named after Dr. Decio Vinciguerra (1856–1934), an Italian ichthyologist.^[1]

Included species

There are currently five extant species recognized in this genus:

• 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)

There are also at least two prehistoric species only known from fossils:

• †Vinciguerria merklini (Danilchenko, 1946)
• †Vinciguerria orientalis Nam, Ko & Nazarkin, 2019

Notes and References

1. Book: Goode , G. Brown . Tarleton H. Bean . 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. Washington, DC. Special Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 1895.