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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Lampadena urophaos

Sunbeam lampfish

WoRMS 126609ITIS 162703GBIF 4286713key worms:126609
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162703 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum
Sunbeam lampfish14 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Lampadena urophaos
Photo · Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · gbif NC

CalCOFI holds 1,057 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2019, as larva.R

1,057
observations
1,057
records
1,057
sampling events
1951–2019
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 1,052 obs · 1,052 events · 1951–2019 · larva
    name used: Lampadena urophaos Sunbeam lampfish · code 256
  • Mesopelagic Fish 5 obs · 5 events · 2011–2012
    name used: Lampadena urophaos · code Lampadena urophaos

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:126609%22