Tarletonbeania crenularis

{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | image = Tarletonbeania crenularis.jpg | genus = Tarletonbeania | species = crenularis | authority = D.S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1880 }}

'''''Tarletonbeania crenularis''''' is a species of lanternfish.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282927|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Tarletonbeania crenularis (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880)|website=www.marinespecies.org|language=en|access-date=2018-02-06}}</ref> The first member of this species was retrieved by Dr. Tarleton H. Bean off of Vancouver Island in 1880, which is where the genus name originates from.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Jordan|first1=David|last2=Starks|first2=Edwin|date=1895|title=The Fishes of Puget Sound|journal=Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences |series=Series 2|volume=5 |pages=785–855}}</ref> The species name comes from the Latin word for a small notch (crenula), and this refers to the slight notch seen at the edges of the scales.

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Category:Myctophidae Category:Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Category:Taxa named by Charles Henry Gilbert Category:Fish described in 1880