''Myctophum nitidulum'', common name pearly lanternfish,
[Myctophum nitidulum, Pearly lanternfish]
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Deep-sea fish are fish that live in the darkness below the sunlit surface waters, that is below the epipelagic or photic zone of the sea. The lanternfish is, by far, the most common deep-sea fish. Other deep sea fishes include the flashlight ...
in the family
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Myctophidae, the "lanternfish".
Description
''Myctophum nitidulum'' grows to a maximum length of .
Distribution
This species is circumglobal in all tropical and subtropical seas. It is found in the follow regions:
*Eastern Atlantic Ocean ranging from Morocco to South Africa
*Western Atlantic Ocean from approximately 42° north to 34° south.
*The Indian Ocean from 7° north to 24° south
*Pacific Ocean from 32° north to 31° south, while also extending north to 40° north travelling in the Kuroshio Current.
*The South China Sea.
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Habitat
This species lives in the bathypelagic zone
The bathypelagic zone or bathyal zone (from Greek βαθύς (bathýs), deep) is the part of the open ocean that extends from a depth of below the ocean surface. It lies between the mesopelagic above, and the abyssopelagic below. The bathypelagic ...
, is oceanodromous, and is found at depths up to 1000 metres.
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Photo of specimen
Photo of specimen
Myctophidae
Taxa named by Samuel Garman
Fish described in 1899
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