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Myctophidae
Lanternfish
Lepidophanes gaussi
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Small
Regional distribution
Marine fish
SmallLepidophanes gaussi is a species of lanternfish distributed in the North Atlantic and South Atlantic gyres.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Lanternfishes
- Family
- Myctophidae
- Genus
- Lepidophanes
- Maximum length
- 5 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- Eastern Atlantic: disjunct distribution between the 30°N and about 20°N, and between 13°S and 23°S. Elsewhere, in the Atlantic, in central regions of anticyclonic gyrals in both hemispheres.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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