Ceratoscopelus

Ceratoscopelus; Temporal range: 5–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ ; Early Pliocene to Present[1]
	Madeira Lanternfish C. maderensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Myctophiformes
Family:	Myctophidae
Genus:	Ceratoscopelus; Günther, 1864
Species
	See text.

Ceratoscopelus is a genus of lanternfish.

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus:[2]

Ceratoscopelus maderensis (R. T. Lowe, 1839) (Madeira lanternfish)
Ceratoscopelus townsendi (C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1889) (Dogtooth lampfish)
Ceratoscopelus warmingii (Lütken, 1892) (Warming's lantern fish)

Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2007-12-25.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Ceratoscopelus in FishBase. April 2012 version.

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