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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Electrona risso

Chubby flashlightfish

WoRMS 126600ITIS 623732GBIF 2405933key worms:126600
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2026-08-05: itis_id 623732 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Antonarctica · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Electrona antarctica
Chubby flashlightfish8.2 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Electrona risso
Photo · Christian Frederik Lütken, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Electrona risso is a species of myctophiform ray-finned fish in the family Myctophidae, the lanternfishes. It is known commonly as the electric lantern fish, chubby flashlight fish, and Risso's lantern-fish.W CalCOFI holds 303 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2022, as larva.R

303
observations
303
records
303
sampling events
1951–2022
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 294 obs · 294 events · 1951–2022 · larva
    name used: Electrona risso Chubby flashlightfish · code 243
  • Mesopelagic Fish 9 obs · 9 events · 2010–2012
    name used: Electrona risso · code Electrona risso

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:126600%22