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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Hygophum proximum

Firefly lanternfish

WoRMS 217700ITIS 623721GBIF 5213295key worms:217700
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2026-08-05: itis_id 623721 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum
Firefly lanternfish5 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Hygophum proximum
Photo · Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · gbif NC

CalCOFI holds 248 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1960 and 2012, as larva.R

248
observations
248
records
248
sampling events
1960–2012
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 247 obs · 247 events · 1960–2006 · larva
    name used: Hygophum proximum · code 253
  • Mesopelagic Fish 1 obs · 1 events · 2012
    name used: Hygophum proximum · code Hygophum proximum

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:217700%22