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Vinciguerria poweriae

Highseas lightfish

WoRMS 127304ITIS 162195GBIF 9736501key worms:127304
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162195 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger
Highseas lightfish4.3 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Vinciguerria poweriae
Photo · Museum of Comparative Zoology · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

Vinciguerria poweriae is a species of lightfish belonging to the genus Vinciguerria. They are mostly found in seawater 300–600 metres (1,000–2,000 ft) deep during the day and 50–350 metres (160–1,150 ft) deep at night.W CalCOFI holds 376 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2023, as larva.R

376
observations
376
records
376
sampling events
1959–2023
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 367 obs · 367 events · 1959–2023 · larva
    name used: Vinciguerria poweriae Highseas lightfish · code 94
  • Mesopelagic Fish 9 obs · 9 events · 2010–2012
    name used: Vinciguerria poweriae · code Vinciguerria poweriae

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:127304%22