CalCOFI.io CalCOFI.io open data ecosystem

Lampanyctus parvicauda

Slimtail lampfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 272715ITIS 623832GBIF 2406001key worms:272715
i

2026-08-05: itis_id 623832 via WoRMS external link

Lampanyctus parvicauda is a species of lanternfish.W CalCOFI holds 556 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2015, as larva.R

556
observations
556
records
556
sampling events
1959–2015
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
11.2 cm
max length
Lampanyctus parvicauda (YPM ICH 002683). Digital Image: Yale Peabody Museum; photo by Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell 2023-04-06
Photo · Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell · CC0 1.0 · gbif

Observed in 1 dataset
i

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.

  • 556 obs556 events1959–2015larva
    name used: Lampanyctus parvicauda Slimtail lampfish · code 264

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:272715%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 11.2 cm max · flexion 5.7–7 mm
Slimtail lampfish11.2 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 Lampanyctus
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 ↗