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Loweina rara

Dwarf lanternfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 126625ITIS 162717GBIF 2405835key worms:126625
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162717 via WoRMS external link

Loweina rara is a species of lanternfish.W CalCOFI holds 304 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2020, as larva.R

304
observations
304
records
304
sampling events
1951–2020
years
2
datasets
larva
life stages
4.5 cm
max length
Scopelus rarus as depicted in 1892 in: Spolia atlantica. Scopelini Musei Zoologici Hauniensis. Bidrag til Kundskab om det aabne Havs Laxesild eller Scopeliner. Det Kongelige Danske videnskabernes Sels
Photo · Christian Frederik Lütken · Public domain · commons

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.

  • 302 obs302 events1951–2020larva
    name used: Loweina rara Dwarf lanternfish · code 270
  • 2 obs2 events2011
    name used: Loweina rara · code Loweina rara

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:126625%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 4.5 cm max · flexion 8.4–10.8 mm
Dwarf lanternfish4.5 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 Loweina
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum · source
  • Photo · Christian Frederik Lütken · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Loweina rara” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366332316
  • 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 ↗