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Diogenichthys laternatus

Diogenes lanternfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 272701ITIS 162677GBIF 2406027key worms:272701
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162677 via WoRMS external link

CalCOFI holds 6,068 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2021, as larva.R

6,068
observations
6,068
records
6,068
sampling events
1951–2021
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
5 cm
max length
Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1912 - 1936: page 210
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

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.

  • 6,068 obs6,068 events1951–2021larva
    name used: Diogenichthys laternatus Diogenes lanternfish · code 242

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:272701%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 cm max · flexion 5.2–6.1 mm
Diogenes lanternfish5 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 Diogenichthys
Credits silhouette · photo · length
  • 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
  • Length · worms_attribute
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 ↗