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Lampanyctus crocodilus (crocodile lanternfish; Lanternfish; Lantern fish; Jewel lanternfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The jewel lanternfish, Lampanyctus crocodilus, is a lanternfish of the family Myctophidae, found in west Mediterranean Sea and north Atlantic Ocean (above 50° N). Bathypelagic between 400 and 2000 m.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Predators

Galeus melastomus (Black-mouth catshark)[2]
Illex coindetii (southern shortfin squid)[3]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 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
♦ 2Feeding ecology of demersal elasmobranchs from the shelf and slope off the Balearic Sea (western Mediterranean), MARIA VALLS, ANTONI QUETGLAS, FRANCESC ORDINES and JOAN MORANTA, Scientia Marina 75(4) December 2011, 633-639, Barcelona (Spain)
♦ 3CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
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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