Animalia > Chordata > Myctophiformes > Myctophidae > Hygophum > Hygophum taaningi

Hygophum taaningi (Lanternfish)

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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

Euphausia krohnii[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Scomber scombrus (Split)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hysterothylacium rigidum[2]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Food of Northwest Atlantic Fishes and Two Common Species of Squid, Ray E. Bowman, Charles E. Stillwell, William L. Michaels, and Marvin D. Grosslein, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-155 (2000)
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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