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Lobianchia gemellarii

Cocco's lantern fish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 158901ITIS 623876GBIF 2405684key worms:158901
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2026-08-05: itis_id 623876 via WoRMS external link

Cocco's lantern fish, also called Gemellar's lanternfish, is a species of lanternfish.W CalCOFI holds 71 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1965 and 2008, as larva.R

71
observations
71
records
71
sampling events
1965–2008
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
6 cm
max length
Photograph of Lobianchia gemellarii
Photo · Emma Kissling , no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Observed in 1 dataset
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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.

  • 71 obs71 events1965–2008larva
    name used: Lobianchia gemellarii · code 266

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:158901%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 6 cm max
Cocco's lantern fish6 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 Lobianchia
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
  • 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, “Cocco's lantern fish” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1342227154
  • Length · worms_attribute
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 ↗