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Diogenichthys atlanticus

Longfin lanternfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 126599ITIS 162676GBIF 2406022key worms:126599
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162676 via WoRMS external link

The longfin lanternfish is a species of oceanodromous lanternfish that is oviparous, and a host of Sarcotretes scopeli.W CalCOFI holds 5,221 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva.R

5,221
observations
5,221
records
5,221
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
larva
life stages
2.9 cm
max length
Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1937 - 1960: page 85
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Observed in 2 datasets
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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.

  • 5,169 obs5,169 events1951–2023larva
    name used: Diogenichthys atlanticus Longfin lanternfish · code 239
  • 52 obs52 events2010–2012
    name used: Diogenichthys atlanticus · code Diogenichthys atlanticus

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:126599%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 2.9 cm max · flexion 6–6.9 mm
Longfin lanternfish2.9 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 Diogenichthys
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
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 ↗