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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Diogenichthys laternatus

Diogenes lanternfish

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

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum
Diogenes lanternfish5 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1912 - 1936: page 210
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

CalCOFI holds 6,058 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2021, as larva.R

6,058
observations
6,058
records
6,058
sampling events
1951–2021
years
1
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.

  • Ichthyoplankton 6,058 obs · 6,058 events · 1951–2021 · larva
    name used: Diogenichthys laternatus Diogenes lanternfish · code 242

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 Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:272701%22