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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Myctophidae

Lanternfishes

WoRMS 125498ITIS 162575GBIF 4217key worms:125498
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162575 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Myctophidae
Photo · uwkwaj · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 105,656 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 73 taxa under it.R

105,656
observations
105,656
records
4,657
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
60
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, 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.

  • Ichthyoplankton 4,636 obs · 4,636 events · 1951–2023 · larva
    name used: Myctophidae Lanternfishes · code 215
  • Mesopelagic Fish 21 obs · 21 events · 2010–2012
    name used: Myctophidae · code Myctophidae

Under it · 5 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125498%22