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Lobianchia dofleini (Zugmayer, 1911)

Dofleini's lantern fish
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Myctophiformes (Lanternfishes) > Myctophidae (Lanternfishes) > Diaphinae
Etymology: Lobianchia: Latin, lobus = lobe + Greek, agchone = bottleneck (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Salvatore Lo Bianco (1860–1910) was an Italian marine biologist. [...] Dr Franz Theodor Doflein (1873–1924) was a German ichthyologist and herpetologist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

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).

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

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

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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: Version 2024-1)

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

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 2.5 - 13.1, mean 4.4 °C (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 (0.00635 - 0.01893), 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.
Generation time: 0.8 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 1 growth studies.
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).
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 158 [50, 518] mg/100g; Iron = 0.893 [0.333, 2.809] mg/100g; Protein = 16.8 [14.9, 18.6] %; Omega3 = 0.622 [0.225, 1.696] g/100g; Selenium = 19 [6, 56] μg/100g; VitaminA = 65.8 [8.8, 469.5] μg/100g; Zinc = 1.13 [0.56, 2.46] mg/100g (wet weight);