Animalia > Chordata > Myctophiformes > Myctophidae > Lampanyctus > Lampanyctus australis

Lampanyctus australis (Austral lanternfish; Lanternfish; Nightlight fish; Southern lanternfish)

Synonyms: Lampanyctus alatus australis
Language: French; Mandarin Chinese; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The southern lanternfish, Lampanyctus australis, is a lanternfish of the family Myctophidae, found circumglobally in the southern hemisphere between 33° S and 44° S, mainly at below 500 m. Its length is about 13 cm. It is an oceanic mesopelagic species, eaten by hakes, kingklip and Cape horse mackerel.
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Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

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♦ 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.
♦ 3FOOD AND FEEDING HABITS OF PENAEUS SEMISULCATUS DE HAAN AT MANDAPAM, M M Thomas, Indian Journal of Fisheries, Vol 27, No 1 & 2 (1980), p. 130-139
♦ 4THE WINTER DIET OF THE GREAT-WINGED PETREL PTERODROMA MACROPTERA AT SUB-ANTARCTIC MARION ISLAND IN 1991, JOHN COOPER & NORBERT T.W. KLAGES, Marine Ornithology 37: 261–263 (2009)
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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