Cyclothone

Cyclothone microdon

Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Actinopterygii
Ordo : Stomiiformes
Familia : Gonostomatidae
Genus : Cyclothone
Goode & T. H. Bean, 1883

Cyclothone est genus piscium bioluminescentium familiae Gonostomatidarum quae plerumque ad magnitudinem octo centimetrorum crescunt et in partibus oceani plusquam trecenta metra profundis habitant. Hoc genus copiosissimum omnium generum vertebratorum creditur, nam sunt fere quadrillio (10¹⁵) singularum Cyclothonarum.^[1]

Nomen deducitur a verbis Graecis κύκλος 'circulus' et ὀθόνη 'linteum', nam rotundis lacinias operculares habet.^[2]

Species

In hoc genere sunt tredecim species quae exstant et una exstincta.^[3]^[4]

Cyclothone acclinidens Garman, 1899
Cyclothone alba A. B. Brauer, 1906
Cyclothone atraria C. H. Gilbert, 1905
Cyclothone braueri Jespersen & Tåning, 1926
Cyclothone kobayashii Miya, 1994
Cyclothone livida A. B. Brauer, 1902
Cyclothone microdon (Günther, 1878)
Cyclothone obscura A. B. Brauer, 1902
Cyclothone pallida A. B. Brauer, 1902
Cyclothone parapallida Badcock, 1982
Cyclothone pseudopallida Mukhacheva, 1964
Cyclothone pygmaea Jespersen & Tåning, 1926
Cyclothone signata Garman, 1899
Cyclothone mukhachevae Nazarkin, 2015 – exstincta, ex aevo Miocaeno

Notae

↑ Broad, William J. (June 29, 2015). "An Ocean Mystery in the Trillions". The New York Times
↑ Goode, G. B. et Tarleton, H. B., 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, (Smithsonian Institution, 1895), p. xxxi.
↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012).
↑ Nazarkin, M. V. (2015) "Fossil bristlemouth Cyclothone mukhachevae sp. nov.

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Cyclothonen spectant.

Situs scientifici: • ITIS • NCBI • Biodiversity • Encyclopedia of Life • WoRMS: Marine Species • Fossilworks

Vide "Cyclothonen" apud Vicispecies.

[1] Broad, William J. (June 29, 2015). "An Ocean Mystery in the Trillions". The New York Times

[2] Goode, G. B. et Tarleton, H. B., 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, (Smithsonian Institution, 1895), p. xxxi.

[3] Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012).

[Nazarkin2015-4] Nazarkin, M. V. (2015) "Fossil bristlemouth Cyclothone mukhachevae sp. nov.

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