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Electrona risso (Risso's lanternfish; Lanternfish; Electric lantern fish; Chubby flashlightfish; Chubby flashlight fish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Electrona risso is a species of fish in the family Myctophidae, the lanternfishes. It is known commonly as the electric lantern fish, chubby flashlight fish, and Risso's lantern-fish. It is a widespread species of all the oceans. The male reaches a maximum length of about 8.2 centimeters. It becomes sexually mature at about 5.9 centimeters. This species is epipelagic to mesopelagic, living at depths of 90 to 820 meters, swimming at shallower depths during daylight hours. Its main food items are copepods.
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Attributes

Maximum Longevity [2]  1 year
Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Polyipnicola hygophi[9]
Scolex pleuronectis[9]

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♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
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♦ 7Feeding habits of neon flying squid Ommastrephes bartramii in the transitional region of the central North Pacific, Hikaru Watanabe, Tsunemi Kubodera, Taro Ichii, Shigeyuki Kawahara, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 266: 173–184, 2004
♦ 8Szoboszlai AI, Thayer JA, Wood SA, Sydeman WJ, Koehn LE (2015) Forage species in predator diets: synthesis of data from the California Current. Ecological Informatics 29(1): 45-56. Szoboszlai AI, Thayer JA, Wood SA, Sydeman WJ, Koehn LE (2015) Data from: Forage species in predator diets: synthesis of data from the California Current. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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