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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Parvilux

WoRMS 270310ITIS 162770key worms:270310
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162770 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum

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

Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1961 - 1971: page 72
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

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

96
observations
96
records
1959–2017
years
2
datasets
2
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 2 taxa

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