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Myctophiformes - Myctophidae

Protomyctophum crockeri (California Flashlightfish)

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GENERAL REFERENCES

Ref 1: Matarese, A.C., A.W. Kendall, Jr., D.M. Blood, and B.M. Vinter. 1989.
Laboratory guide to early life history stages of Northeast Pacific fishes. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, 652 p.
Ref 2: Moser, H.G., and E.H. Ahlstrom. 1970.
Development of lanternfishes (family Myctophidae) in the California Current. Part 1. Species with narrow-eyed larvae. Bull. Los Ang. Cty. Mus. Nat. Hist. Sci. 7, 145 p.
Ref 3: Moser, H.G., and E.H. Ahlstrom. 1996.
Myctophidae: Lanternfishes. In H.G. Moser (ed.), The early stages of fishes in the California Current region, p. 387-475. CalCOFI Atlas 33. Allen Press, Lawrence, KS, 1505 p.
Ref 4: Moser, H.G., E.H. Ahlstrom, and J.R. Paxton. 1984.
Myctophidae: Development. In H.G. Moser, W.J. Richards, D.M. Cohen, M.P. Fahay, A.W. Kendall, Jr., and S.L Richardson (eds.), Ontogeny and systematics of fishes. Spec. Publ. 1, Am. Soc. Ichthyol. Herpetol., p. 218-239. Allen Press, Lawrence, KS, 760 p.

FOOTNOTES

1 Wisner, R.L. 1974.
The taxonomy and distribution of lanternfishes (family Myctophidae) of the eastern Pacific Ocean. NORDA Rep.-3, Navy Ocean Research and Development Activity, Bay St. Louis, MS, 229 p.

FIGURES

A - E: Moser, H.G., and E.H. Ahlstrom. 1970.
Development of lanternfishes (family Myctophidae) in the California Current. Part 1. Species with narrow-eyed larvae. Bull. Los Ang. Cty. Mus. Nat. Hist. Sci. 7, 145 p.

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