Protoblepharon is a genus of flashlight fishes known from the Pacific Ocean from around the Cook Islands (P. rosenblatti) and off of eastern Taiwan (P. mccoskeri).
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Trachichthyiformes |
| Family: | Anomalopidae |
| Genus: | Protoblepharon C. C. Baldwin, G. D. Johnson & Paxton, 1997 |
Species edit
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[1][2]
- Protoblepharon mccoskeri H. C. Ho & G. D. Johnson, 2012 (Taiwanese flashlightfish)[2]
- Protoblepharon rosenblatti C. C. Baldwin, G. D. Johnson & Paxton, 1997 (Cook Islands flashlightfish)
References edit
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Protoblepharon in FishBase. October 2012 version.
- ^ a b Ho, H.-C. & Johnson, D. (2012): Protoblepharon mccoskeri, a new flashlight fish from eastern Taiwan (Teleostei: Anomalopidae). Zootaxa, 3479: 77–87.
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