Warming's lantern fish
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| Species: | C. warmingii
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| Ceratoscopelus warmingii (Lütken, 1892)
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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.) (2006). "Ceratoscopelus warmingii" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
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