Warming's lantern fish
| Warming's lantern fish | |
|---|---|
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| Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Myctophiformes |
| Family: | Myctophidae |
| Genus: | Ceratoscopelus |
| Species: | C. warmingii |
| Binomial name | |
| Ceratoscopelus warmingii (Lütken, 1892) | |
Warming's lantern fish, Ceratoscopelus warmingii, is a lanternfish of the family Myctophidae, found circumglobally in both hemispheres, at depths of between 700 and 1,500 m during the day and between 20 and 200 m at night. Its length is about 8 cm. It is an oceanic bathypelagic species.
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Ceratoscopelus warmingii" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
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