Warming's lantern fish
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| Ceratoscopelus warmingii (Lütken, 1892) |
Warming's lantern fish, Ceratoscopelus warmingii, is a lanternfish of the family Myctophidae, found circumglobally in both hemispheres, at depths of between 700 and 1,500 m during the day and between 20 and 200 m at night. Its length is about 8 cm. It is an oceanic bathypelagic species.
[edit] References
- "Ceratoscopelus warmingii". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. May 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
