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Bottlelights Temporal range: Middle Eocene to Present 37–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Stomiiformes
Family:	Sternoptychidae
Subfamily:	Maurolicinae
Genus:	Danaphos Bruun, 1931

Danaphos is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus which belongs in the family Sternoptychidae. A common name is bottlelights.

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus:

• Danaphos asteroscopus Bruun, 1931
• Danaphos oculatus (Garman, 1899) (Bottlelights, Bigeye Lightfish)

Fossils of bottlelights show that the genus was already distinct in the Late Eocene, more than 35 million years ago.

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Danaphos". FishBase. February 2012 version.
2. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) (2004): TSN 162231 – Danaphos. Retrieved 2009-OCT-02
3. Sepkoski, Jack (2002): . In: A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. HTML database excerpt

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