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Lampanyctus tenuiformis

Slender lanternfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 158898ITIS 623716GBIF 2405991key worms:158898
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2026-08-05: itis_id 623716 via WoRMS external link

Lampanyctus tenuiformis is a species of lanternfish.W CalCOFI holds 73 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1962 and 2022, as larva.R

73
observations
73
records
73
sampling events
1962–2022
years
2
datasets
larva
life stages
15.3 cm
max length
Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum

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.

  • 66 obs66 events1962–2022larva
    name used: Lampanyctus tenuiformis · code 267
  • 7 obs7 events2010–2012
    name used: Lampanyctus tenuiformis · code Lampanyctus tenuiformis

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:158898%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 15.3 cm max
Slender lanternfish15.3 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 Lampanyctus
Credits silhouette · text · length
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 ↗