Parvilux

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 270310ITIS 162770key worms:270310

2026-08-05: itis_id 162770 via WoRMS external link

Parvilux is a genus of lanternfishes.W CalCOFI holds 96 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2017, across 2 taxa under it.R

Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Parvilux ingens most observed, in the fold below.

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:270310")

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 2 taxa · Parvilux ingens most observed

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Lampanyctinae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum · source
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Parvilux” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1221267316

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

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 ↗