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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Occurs off the coast of southern Mozambique.
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/mz.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Hulley, P.A., 1986
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Common names from other countries

Lanterne de Dofleini, Japonés, سمك قانُوس دُوفلِيني, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Myctophiformes (Lanternfishes) > Myctophidae (Lanternfishes) > Diaphinae
Etymology: Lobianchia: Latin, lobus = lobe + Greek, agchone = bottleneck (Ref. 45335).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; bathypelagic; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 0 - 4000 m (Ref. 58018). Deep-water; 50°N - 40°S

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Atlantic Ocean: between 50°N and 40°S including the Mediterranean but with a distributional gap between 8°S and 13°S in the eastern Atlantic, absent in the South Sargasso Sea and minimum region off Brazil. Southern circumglobal (Ref. 7300). Western Atlantic between Santa Catarina and the Subtropical Convergence (Ref. 47377).

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ?, range 3 - ? cm
Max length : 6.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 128245); max. published weight: 2.20 g (Ref. 126117)

Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 15 - 14; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 13 - 15.

High-oceanic, found between 300-750 m during the day and between 20-400 m at night (Ref. 4066). Size stratification observed with depth (Ref. 4479). Feeds nocturnally or during vertical migration, mainly on copepods and ostracods (Ref. 4775).

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Paxton, John | Collaborators

Hulley, P.A., 1990. Myctophidae. p. 398-467. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI; Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1. (Ref. 4479)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 21 May 2013

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 2.5 - 13.1, mean 4.4 (based on 1310 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.7500 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01096 (0.00638 - 0.01885), b=3.00 (2.85 - 3.15), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.0 ±0.11 se; based on food items.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=1.39; tmax=1).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Lobianchia dofleini (Zugmayer, 1911)