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Benthosema pterotum (Spinycheek lanternfish; Skinnycheek lanternfish; Opaline lanternfish)

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Language: Japanese; Korean; Mandarin Chinese

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Amblycirrhitus pinos (Redspotted Hawkflsh)1
Decapterus punctatus (Summer stonebrass)1
Hygophum hygomii (Lanternfish)1

Predators

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Feeding ecology of the lanternfish Benthosema pterotum from the Indian Ocean, P. Dalpadado and J. Gjøsæter, Marine Biology 99, 555-567 (1988)
♦ 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 FOOD OF YELLOWFIN AND SKIPJACK TUNAS IN THE EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN, FRANKLIN G. ALVERSON, INTER-AMERICAN TROPICAL TUNA COMMISSION Bulletin, Vol. VII, No. 5 (1963)
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