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Ceratoscopelus warmingii

Warming's lantern fish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 126586ITIS 623722GBIF 2406033key worms:126586
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2026-08-05: itis_id 623722 via WoRMS external link

Warming's lantern fish, Ceratoscopelus warmingii, is a lanternfish of the family Myctophidae, found circumglobally in both hemispheres, at depths of between 700 and 1,500 m during the day and between 20 and 200 m at night. Its length is about 8 cm (3.15 in).W CalCOFI holds 203 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1998 and 2006, as larva.R

203
observations
203
records
203
sampling events
1998–2006
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
8.1 cm
max length
Photograph of Ceratoscopelus warmingii
Photo · Christian Frederik Lütken, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Observed in 1 dataset
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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.

  • 203 obs203 events1998–2006larva
    name used: Ceratoscopelus warmingii · code 224

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:126586%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 8.1 cm max
Warming's lantern fish8.1 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.

Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Ceratoscopelus
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum · source
  • Photo · Christian Frederik Lütken, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Warming's lantern fish” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366332354
  • Length · worms_attribute
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase

WikidataiNaturalistFishBase

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗