Dusky Lanternfish, Nannobrachium atrum (Tåning 1928)
A Dusky Lanternfish, Nannobrachium atrum, from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Source: Alexei Orlov / WORMS. License: CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike
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Dusky Lanternfish, Nannobrachium atrum (Tåning 1928)
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Distribution |
Off Perth to off Dampier, Western Australia, and the Coral Sea off Cape York, Queensland, to off eastern Tasmania; also on the Lord Howe Rise and Norfolk Ridge in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the Atlantic and Indo-south-west Pacific. An oceanic, mesopelagic species that undertakes diel migrations from as deep as 550-850 m during the day, up to 60-850 m during the night for feeding purposes. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin 14-16; Anal fin 16-20; Pectoral fin 11-12; Gill rakers (4-5)+(11-13); Lateral-line scales 36-39; AO photophores (6-8)+(6-9). Pectoral fins weakly developed; Pol photophore on or slightly before vertical at origin of adipose fin; origin of adipose fin well in advance of vertical at base of last anal-fin ray. |
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Species Citation |
Lampanyctus ater Tåning 1928, Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 86: 68. Type locality: North Atlantic [30°17´N, 20°44´W]. |
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Bray, D.J. 2018 |
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Dusky Lanternfish, Nannobrachium atrum (Tåning 1928)
References
Brandt, S.B. 1981. Effects of a warm-core eddy on fish distribution in the Tasman Sea off east Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 6: 19-33 figs 1-7
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Hulley, P. 2015. Nannobrachium atrum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T15600731A15603860. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T15600731A15603860.en. Downloaded on 27 November 2018.
Nafpaktitis, B.G. 1973. A review of the lanternfishes (Family Myctophidae) described by Å. Vedel Tåning. Dana Reports 83: 1-46 figs 1-44
Paxton, J.R. & Hulley, P.A. 1999. Myctophidae. pp. 1957-1965 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068. (as Lampanyctus ater)
Robertson, D. & Clements, K.D. 2015. 89 Family Myctophidae, pp. 613-680 in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 3 pp. 577-1152.
Tåning, Å.V. 1928. Synopsis of the scopelids in the North Atlantic. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 86: 49-69 figs 1-2
Zahuranec, B.J. 2000. Zoogeography and systematics of the lanternfishes of the genus Nannobrachium (Myctophidae: Lampanyctini). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 607: 1-69 figs 1-25
