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Lampadena urophaos

Sunbeam lampfish

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

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

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.

  • 1,052 obs1,052 events1951–2019larva
    name used: Lampadena urophaos Sunbeam lampfish · code 256
  • 5 obs5 events2011–2012
    name used: Lampadena urophaos · code Lampadena urophaos

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:126609%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 14 cm max · flexion 6.8–8.3 mm
Sunbeam lampfish14 cm
bongo net ring71 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 Lampadena
Credits silhouette · photo · length · plate
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum · source
  • Photo · Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · gbif · source
  • Length · worms_attribute
  • Plate · Matarese, Kendall, Blood & Vinter 1989, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, via the AFSC Ichthyoplankton Information System · Public domain (US Government work) · noaa_iis · source
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 ↗