Animalia > Chordata > Myctophiformes > Myctophidae > Notoscopelus > Notoscopelus japonicus

Notoscopelus japonicus (Japanese lanternfish; Patchwork lampfish; Patchwork lanternfish)

Synonyms: Macrostoma quercinum japonicum
Language: Japanese; Mandarin Chinese

Prey / Diet

Candacia columbiae[1]
Euchaeta rimana[1]
Euphausia pacifica (Pacific krill)[1]
Neocalanus cristatus[1]
Tessarabrachion oculatum[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Ommastrephes bartramii (red flying squid)[2]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Diet of the mesopelagic fish Notoscopelus japonicus (Family: Myctophidae) associated with the continental slope off the Pacific coast of Honshu, Japan, Uchikawa, Kazuhisa; Yamamura, Orio; Kitagawa, Daiji; Sakurai, Yasunori, Fisheries Science, 68(5): 1034-1040, 2002
♦ 2Feeding habits of neon flying squid Ommastrephes bartramii in the transitional region of the central North Pacific, Hikaru Watanabe, Tsunemi Kubodera, Taro Ichii, Shigeyuki Kawahara, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 266: 173–184, 2004
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