Dofleini's lantern fish (Lobianchia dofleini)

Scientific name: Lobianchia dofleini Zugmayer, 1911

Dofleini's lantern fish (Lobianchia dofleini)

The Dofleini's lantern fish (Lobianchia dofleini) is a marine fish of the family Myctophidae.

Biology

High-oceanic, found between 300-750 m during the day and between 20-400 m at night. Size stratification observed with depth. Feeds nocturnally or during vertical migration, mainly on copepods and ostracods.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Lobianchia dofleini
Family
Myctophidae (Lanternfishes)
Order
Myctophiformes (Lanternfishes)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
5.0
Depth range
0–4000 m (0–13123 ft)
Environment
Marine; bathypelagic; oceanodromous; depth range 0 - 4000 m
Climate
Deep-water
Distribution
Atlantic Ocean: between 50?N and 40?S including the Mediterranean but with a distributional gap between 8?S and 13?S in the eastern Atlantic, absent in the South Sargasso Sea and minimum region off Brazil. Southern circumglobal. Western Atlantic between Santa Catarina and the Subtropical Convergence.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Resilience
High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=1.39; tmax=1)

Sources

Taxonomy, distribution and biology data: FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

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