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Hygophum proximum (Firefly lanternfish; Lantern fish)

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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Prey / Diet

Candacia curta[2]
Candacia truncata[2]
Euchaeta indica[2]
Euchaeta rimana[2]

Predators

Stenella attenuata (Pantropical Spotted Dolphin)[2]
Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped Dolphin)[3]
Stenella longirostris (Spinner Dolphin)[2]
Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis (purpleback squid)[2]

External References

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 THE STRIPED DOLPHIN, Stenella coeruleoalba, IN THE EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN, William F. Perrin, Kelly M. Robertson, and William A. Walker, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS, March 2008
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