Animalia > Chordata > Stomiiformes > Phosichthyidae > Vinciguerria > Vinciguerria nimbaria

Vinciguerria nimbaria (World-wide bristle-mouth fish; Oceanic lightfish; Narooma lightfish; Narooma lantern-fish; Lightfish; Frilled lighthouse fish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The oceanic lightfish, Vinciguerria nimbaria, a lightfish of the genus Vinciguerria, is found in all deep tropical and subtropical oceans and seas, from depths of 20 to 5,000 m. Its length is between 2 and 5 cm.It is the main prey of tuna during the tuna fishing season (late autumn and winter) in the equatorial Atlantic. Its own diet is varied and is dependent on its location. In equatorial locations it has been found to behave as a mesopelagic fish and as an opportunistic mesozooplankton feeder, whist further north in oligotrophic typical tropical structures it was found to behave as an epipelagic fish, feeding on the dominant small prey during the daytime.
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Prey / Diet

Clausocalanus furcatus[1]
Oithona plumifera[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Argyropelecus sladeni (Hatchet fish)1
Oblada melanura (Saddled seabream)1

Predators

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Feeding behavior of adult Vinciguerria nimbaria (Phosichthyidae), in the tropical Atlantic (0°–4°N, 15°W), Gisèle Amélie Champalbert, Basile Kouamé, Marc Pagano, Emile Marchal, Mar Biol (2008) 156:79–95
♦ 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.
♦ 3THE PREY OF NEWELL’S SHEARWATER PUFFINUS NEWELLI IN HAWAIIAN WATER, DAVID G. AINLEY, WILLIAM A. WALKER, GREGORY C. SPENCER & NICK D. HOLMES, Marine Ornithology 44: 69–72 (2014)
♦ 4Forage fauna in the diet of three large pelagic fishes (lancetfish, swordfish and yellowfin tuna) in the western equatorial Indian Ocean, Michel Potier, Francis Marsac, Yves Cherel, Vincent Lucas, Richard Sabatié, Olivier Maury and Frédéric Ménard, Fisheries Research 83 (2007) 60–72
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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