Diaphus perspicillatus

Diaphus perspicillatus, the transparent lantern fish, is a species of lanternfish found worldwide.

No picture of Diaphus perspicillatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Diaphus perspicillatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiaphusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes

Time the record covers

At most 1.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 1.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–3.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.4–3.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1 Mya1.3 Mya

5 occurrences of Diaphus perspicillatus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

5 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Shinzato — 26.12°N, 127.74°EShinzato — 26.36°N, 127.98°EShinzato — 26.32°N, 127.96°ENobori — 33.37°N, 134.06°EDainichi — 34.80°N, 137.00°E

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The named rock units Diaphus perspicillatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Diaphus perspicillatus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Diaphus perspicillatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Diaphus perspicillatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Diaphus perspicillatus · MCZ:Ich:126705

No picture of Diaphus perspicillatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Diaphus perspicillatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDiaphus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ogilby 1898)