Vinciguerria poweriae
Highseas lightfish
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162195 via WoRMS external link
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
- 4.3 cm
- max length
Observed in 2 datasetsi
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.
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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.
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name used: Vinciguerria poweriae Highseas lightfish · code
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name used: Vinciguerria poweriae · code
Vinciguerria poweriae
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:127304")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:127304'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it 4.3 cm max · egg 0.75–0.85 mm
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 12 ranks · Biota to Vinciguerria
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
- Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger · source
- Photo · Museum of Comparative Zoology · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Vinciguerria poweriae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1345290171
- Length · worms_attribute
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗