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Parvilux ingens

Giant lampfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 282178ITIS 162771GBIF 2406124key worms:282178
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162771 via WoRMS external link

CalCOFI holds 92 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2017, as larva.R

92
observations
92
records
92
sampling events
1959–2017
years
2
datasets
larva
life stages
20 cm
max length
Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1961 - 1971: page 72
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.

  • 81 obs81 events1959–2017larva
    name used: Parvilux ingens Giant lampfish · code 286
  • 11 obs11 events2010–2012
    name used: Parvilux ingens · code Parvilux ingens

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:282178%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 20 cm max · flexion 6.6–7.8 mm
Giant lampfish20 cm
bongo net ring71 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 Parvilux
Credits silhouette · photo · length · plate
  • 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 · fishbase
  • Plate · Matarese, Kendall, Blood & Vinter 1989, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, via the AFSC Ichthyoplankton Information System · Public domain (US Government work) · noaa_iis · source
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 ↗