Animalia > Chordata > Stomiiformes > Phosichthyidae > Vinciguerria > Vinciguerria lucetia

Vinciguerria lucetia (Lightfish; Panama lightfish)

Synonyms: Maurolicus lucetius; Vinciguerria lucetius; Vinciguerria lutecia
Language: Mandarin Chinese; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

Vinciguerria lucetia is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the genus Vinciguerria known by the common name Panama lightfish. It is a small bioluminescent fish, with two rows of tiny photophores along its body. It is very abundant in the tropical IndoPacific where it makes large vertical migrations each day.
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Prey / Diet

Centropages brachiatus[1]

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2Olson, Robert J., and Felipe Galvan-Magana. "Food habits and consumption rates of common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) in the eastern Pacific Ocean." Fishery Bulletin 100.2 (2002): 279+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 July 2010
3Jorrit 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.
4THE FOOD OF YELLOWFIN AND SKIPJACK TUNAS IN THE EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN, FRANKLIN G. ALVERSON, INTER-AMERICAN TROPICAL TUNA COMMISSION Bulletin, Vol. VII, No. 5 (1963)
5PREY OCCURRENCE IN THE STOMACH CONTENTS OF FOUR SMALL CETACEAN SPECIES IN PERU, IGNACIO GARCÍA-GODOS, KOEN VAN WAEREBEEK, JULIO C. REYES, JOANNA ALFARO-SHIGUETO AND MILENA ARIAS-SCHREIBER, LAJAM 6(2): 171-183, December 2007
6THE DIET OF MARKHAM’S STORM PETREL OCEANODROMA MARKHAMI ON THE CENTRAL COAST OF PERU, IGNACIO GARCÍA-GODOS, ELISA GOYA & JAIME JAHNCKE, Marine Ornithology 30: 77–83 (2002)
7del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
8DIET 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
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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