Animalia > Chordata > Myctophiformes > Myctophidae > Lampanyctus > Lampanyctus alatus

Lampanyctus alatus (Winged lanternfish; Nightlight fish)

Synonyms:
Language: Japanese; Mandarin Chinese

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

Predators

Astronesthes similus[2]
Chauliodus sloani (Dannevig's dragonfish)[3]
Lagenodelphis hosei (Fraser's Dolphin)[2]
Pentaceros wheeleri (North Pacific armorhead)[2]
Stenella longirostris (Spinner Dolphin)[2]

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.
♦ 3Trophic ecologyof the stomiid (Pisces: Stomiidae) fish assemblage of the eastern Gulf of Mexico: strategies, selectivity and impact of a top mesopelagic predator group, T. T. Sutton, T. L. Hopkins, Marine Biology (1996) 127:179-192
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