Lampanyctus est genus piscium maritimorum familiae Myctophidarum ordinis Myctophiformium. In omnibus oceanis maioribus ab aquis antarcticis ad temperatis septentrionales inveniuntur.[2]
Generi hodie sunt viginti duae species descriptae:[3]
- Lampanyctus acanthurus Wisner, 1974
- Lampanyctus alatus Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896
- Lampanyctus australis Tåning, 1932
- Lampanyctus crocodilus (A. Risso, 1810)
- Lampanyctus festivus Tåning, 1928
- Lampanyctus hubbsi Wisner, 1963
- Lampanyctus intricarius Tåning, 1928
- Lampanyctus iselinoides W. A. Bussing, 1965
- Lampanyctus jordani C. H. Gilbert, 1913
- Lampanyctus lepidolychnus Becker, 1967
- Lampanyctus macdonaldi (Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896)
- Lampanyctus macropterus (A. B. Brauer, 1904)
- Lampanyctus nobilis Tåning, 1928
- Lampanyctus omostigma C. H. Gilbert, 1908
- Lampanyctus parvicauda A. E. Parr, 1931
- Lampanyctus photonotus A. E. Parr, 1928
- Lampanyctus pusillus (J. Y. Johnson, 1890)
- Lampanyctus simulator Wisner, 1971
- Lampanyctus steinbecki Bolin, 1939
- Lampanyctus tenuiformis (A. B. Brauer, 1906)
- Lampanyctus turneri (Fowler, 1934)
- Lampanyctus vadulus Hulley, 1981
- Nafpaktitis, Basil G., Richard H. Backus, James E. Craddock, Richard L. Haedrich, Bruce H. Robison, et Charles Carnella. 1977. Fishes of the Western North Atlantic: Order Iniomi (Myctophiformes): Neoscopelids, Lanternfishes, and Atlantic Mesopelagic Zoogeography, part 7, memoir 1. Portu Novo: Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Yale University. ISBN 978-0-912532-88-2.