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| image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
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| phylum = [[Chordata]]
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| classis = [[Actinopterygii]]
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Revision as of 18:56, 29 August 2006

Warming's lantern fish
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
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C. warmingii
Binomial name
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.

References

  • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Ceratoscopelus warmingii". FishBase. May 2006 version.