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Myctophidae
Slopewater lanternfish
Diaphus taaningi
Living Lantern of the Caribbean Sea
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- Fusiform
- Small
Northern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
SmallDiaphus taaningi, the slopewater lanternfish, is a species of lanternfish found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Lanternfishes
- Family
- Myctophidae
- Genus
- Diaphus
- Maximum length
- 7 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eastern Atlantic: Mauritanian Upwelling region and Gulf of Guinea south to 23°S. Western Atlantic: USA (Gulf Stream) to Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951 ). Reported off the Guianas (Ref. 13608 ).
- Conservation status
- DDData Deficient
Class
Family
Conservation status
