Lampanyctus festivus Taning 1928
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Myctophiformes
- family
- Myctophidae
- genus
- Lampanyctus
- species
- Lampanyctus festivus
description
Festive Lanternfish. To 15.7 cm (6.2 in) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan; in eastern Pacific Ocean as far northward as central California (35 ° 58 ’ N, 122 ° 32 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Mesopelagic; depth: 0 – 1,800 m (5,904 ft) (Porteiro et al. 2017). A record of 3,600 m (11,808 ft) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) was based on the maximum depth fished by a midwater trawl and may represent a catch shallower than the maximum depth. The eastern Pacific form could be L. festivus, Lampanyctus tenuiformis (Brauer, 1906) or an unrecognized species (Benjamin Frable).
Name
- Homonyms
- Lampanyctus festivus Taning 1928