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Myctophidae
Transparent lantern fish
Diaphus perspicillatus
Myctophid Fish from Australian Waters
- Northern Hemisphere
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- North America
- South America
- Fusiform
- Small
Northern Hemisphere
Marine fish
Africa
Fusiform
SmallTransparent lantern fish is known from Eastern Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Lanternfishes
- Family
- Myctophidae
- Genus
- Diaphus
- Maximum length
- 10.4 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eastern Atlantic: Western Sahara to Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (Agulhas Water pockets). Western Atlantic: USA to Argentina; between 27°30'N and 35°56'S (Ref. 47377 ). Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951 ). Eastern Pacific: Near Hawaii. Western Pacific: 36°N and 1°S southwards to East Australian Current. Western Indian Ocean: west of 70°E between 7°N-25°S, and in Agulhas Current to 37°S. South China Sea (Ref.74511).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
