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This document includes 25 plates of annotated photographs of lanternfish Diaphus spp. specimens collected during cruises ESSCHA, NECTAlis, PUFFAlis and WALLAlis of R.V. Alis in the Coral Sea, the Fiji Basin, and the Pacific Ocean around Wallis-and-Futuna Islands. Specimens were grouped by operational taxonomic unit, defined (OTU) as the cluster to which they belonged in a phylogenetic tree of sequences of a portion of the CO1 gene. Species assignment was initially based on the morphological identification of reference specimens, i.e., particularly-well preserved specimens that exhibit the diagnostic characters mentioned in diagnoses and identification keys from the published literature. In several instances, the same species was represented by distinct OTUs. |
