Lobianchia

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 158899ITIS 162752key worms:158899

2026-08-05: itis_id 162752 via WoRMS external link

Lobianchia is a genus of lanternfishes. Both known species are found in the Atlantic Ocean, but one is found all other non-polar oceans.W CalCOFI holds 71 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1965 and 2008.R

71
observations: 71
records: 1965–2008
years: 1
datasets

Photo · Emma Kissling, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:158899")

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 not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 1 taxon

sp Lobianchia gemellarii Cocco's lantern fish71

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Diaphinae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum · source
Photo · Emma Kissling, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Lobianchia” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1363216382

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

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