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Diaphus anderseni

Andersen's lantern fish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 272657ITIS 162586GBIF 2406298key worms:272657
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162586 via WoRMS external link

Diaphus anderseni, also known as Andersen's lantern fish, is a species of lanternfish found in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.W CalCOFI holds 5 observations of it in 2 datasets between 2010 and 2020, as larva.R

5
observations
5
records
5
sampling events
2010–2020
years
2
datasets
larva
life stages
3.2 cm
max length
Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1937 - 1960: page 86
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Observed in 2 datasets
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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.

  • 4 obs4 events2010–2012
    name used: Diaphus anderseni · code Diaphus anderseni
  • 1 obs1 events2020larva
    name used: Diaphus anderseni · code 1257

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Mesopelagic Fish table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/sio_mesopelagic-fish.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:272657%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 3.2 cm max
Andersen's lantern fish3.2 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 Diaphus
Credits silhouette · photo · 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 ↗