Myctophidae
Lanternfishes
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162575 via WoRMS external link
Lanternfish are small mesopelagic fish of the large family Myctophidae. One of two families in the order Myctophiformes, the Myctophidae are represented by 246 species in 33 genera, and are found in oceans worldwide.W CalCOFI holds 106,262 observations of it in 3 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 73 taxa under it.R
- 106,262
- observations
- 106,262
- records
- 4,663
- sampling events
- 1951–2023
- years
- 3
- datasets
- 60
- species under it
- larva
- life stages
Observed in 2 datasetsi
One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same
strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses
(dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet
pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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name used: Myctophidae Lanternfishes · code
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name used: Myctophidae · code
Myctophidae
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125498")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125498'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 5 taxa · Lampanyctinae most observed
- sF Lampanyctinae52,346
- sF Myctophinae43,511
- sF Diaphinae4,127
- sF Gymnoscopelinae1,055
- sF Notolychninae560
Life stages larva
- Ichthyoplankton larva
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Myctophiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum · source
- Photo · uwkwaj · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Lanternfish” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354822622
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗