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Benthosema panamense

Panama lanternfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 272648ITIS 623748GBIF 2406069key worms:272648
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2026-08-05: itis_id 623748 via WoRMS external link

Benthosema panamense is a species of marine fish in the family Myctophidae.W CalCOFI holds 101 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1966 and 2012, as larva.R

101
observations
101
records
101
sampling events
1966–2012
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
5.5 cm
max length
Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Benthosema glaciale

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.

  • 101 obs101 events1966–2012larva
    name used: Benthosema panamense Panama lanternfish · code 217

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:272648%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 5.5 cm max · flexion 4.1–5.8 mm
Panama lanternfish5.5 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · fishbase

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 Benthosema
Credits silhouette · text · length
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 ↗