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Genus of fishes
Vinciguerria is a genus of lightfishes, family
Phosichthyidae .
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It is named after Dr.
Decio Vinciguerra (1856–1934), an Italian ichthyologist.
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There are currently five extant species recognized in this genus:
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There are also at least two prehistoric species only known from fossils:
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†Vinciguerria merklini (Danilchenko, 1946)
†Vinciguerria orientalis Nam, Ko & Nazarkin, 2019
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Species of Vinciguerria in
FishBase . August 2022 version.
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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. {{
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^ 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.
Bibcode :
2019JVPal..39E5911N .
doi :
10.1080/02724634.2019.1625911 .
S2CID
199637854 .