Animalia > Chordata > Myctophiformes > Myctophidae > Hygophum > Hygophum benoiti

Hygophum benoiti (Lanternfish; Benoit's lanternfish; Benoit's lantern fish)

Synonyms: Hygophum bennoiti; Myctophum benoiti; Scopelus benoiti
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States

Prey / Diet

Centropages typicus[2]

Predators

Hoplostethus atlanticus (Slimehead)[2]
Pleurogrammus monopterygius (Atka mackerel)[2]
Prionace glauca (Tribon blou)[2]
Synodus saurus (Atlantic lizardfish)[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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.
♦ 3Diet of Atlantic lizardfish, Synodus saurus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Pisces: Synodontidae) in the central Mediterranean Sea, Valentina Esposito, Pietro Battaglia, Luca Castriota, Maria Grazia Finoia, Gianfranco Scotti and Franco Andaloro, Scientia Marina 73(2) June 2009, 369-376
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