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Notoscopelus kroyeri (Lanternfish; Lancet fish; Krøyer's lanternfish; Kroyer's lantern fish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Notoscopelus kroyeri, commonly known as the lancet fish, is a species of lanternfish in the family Myctophidae. It is endemic to the North Atlantic Ocean where it is found in deep water habitats, spending its day at great depths and its night near the surface. It was previously regarded by some authorities as being a subspecies of Notoscopelus elongatus; one of the differences between the two being that N. elongatus has 25 or fewer gill rakers while N. kroyeri has 26 or more.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Prey / Diet

Calanus finmarchicus[2]
Calanus hyperboreus[2]
Meganyctiphanes norvegica (Norwegian krill)[2]
Metridia longa[2]
Themisto compressa[2]

Predators

Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped Dolphin)[2]
Xiphias gladius (Swordfish)[2]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0