Animal Diversity Web

Vinciguerria nimbaria

Oceanic Lightfish

(Also: World-wide bristle-mouth fish)

Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
        
        Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
        
        Order Stomiiformes
        
        Family Phosichthyidae (Lightfishes)
        
        Genus Vinciguerria
        
        Species Vinciguerria nimbaria (Oceanic Lightfish)