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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Diogenichthys atlanticus

Longfin lanternfish

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

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum
Longfin lanternfish2.9 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1937 - 1960: page 85
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

The longfin lanternfish is a species of oceanodromous lanternfish that is oviparous, and a host of Sarcotretes scopeli.W CalCOFI holds 5,183 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva.R

5,183
observations
5,183
records
5,183
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
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 5,131 obs · 5,131 events · 1951–2023 · larva
    name used: Diogenichthys atlanticus Longfin lanternfish · code 239
  • Mesopelagic Fish 52 obs · 52 events · 2010–2012
    name used: Diogenichthys atlanticus · code Diogenichthys atlanticus

How big is it
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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.

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:126599%22