Southern lanternfish

Southern lanternfish

Taxobox
name = Southern lanternfish


image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Myctophiformes
familia = Myctophidae
genus = "Lampanyctus"
species = "L. australis"
binomial = "Lampanyctus australis"
binomial_authority = (Tåning, 1932)
The southern lanternfish, "Lampanyctus australis", is a lanternfish of the family Myctophidae, found circumglobally in the southern hemisphere between 33° S and 44° S, mainly at below 500 m. Its length is about 13 cm. It is an oceanic mesopelagic species, eaten by hakes, kingklip and Cape horse mackerel.

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