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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Diaphus anderseni

Andersen's lantern fish

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

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum
Andersen's lantern fish3.2 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1937 - 1960: page 86
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

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

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.

  • Mesopelagic Fish 4 obs · 4 events · 2010–2012
    name used: Diaphus anderseni · code Diaphus anderseni
  • Ichthyoplankton 1 obs · 1 events · 2020 · larva
    name used: Diaphus anderseni · code 1257

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 Mesopelagic Fish table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/sio_mesopelagic-fish.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:272657%22