Loweina rara
Description
Loweina rara (Lütken, 1892).
Dwarf Lanternfish. To 5 cm (2 in) SL (Nafpaktitis et al. 1977). Circumglobal; northern California (Matarese et al. 1989) to tropical eastern Pacific (Wisner 1976). Larvae as far north as Oregon (Matarese et al. 1989) and as far south as well-off Chile (about 20°S, 94°W) (Moser and Ahlstrom 1970). Depth: surface to 1,050 m (3,445 ft) (min.: Wisner 1976; max.: Nafpaktitis et al. 1977) or perhaps to 3,290 m (10,791 ft) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). The latter record is based on a midwater trawl catch and the depth of capture may have been above the maximum tow depth. Includes records of Loweina laurae Wisner, 1971.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Myctophidae
- Genus
- Loweina
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Myctophiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lutken
- Species
- rara
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Loweina rara (Lutken, 1892) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Nafpaktitis, B., Backus, R. H., Craddock, J. R., Haedrich, R. L., Robison, B. H. C. Karnella, C. (1977) Family Myctophidae. In: Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Memoirs of the Sears Foundation for Marine Research, 7 (1), pp. 13 - 265.
- Matarese, A. C., Kendall Jr., A. W., Blood, D. M. & Vintner, B. M. (1989) Laboratory guide to early life history stages of northeast Pacific fishes. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 80.
- Wisner, R. L. (1976) The taxonomy and distribution of lanternfishes (family Myctophidae) of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Navy Ocean Research and Development Activity, Report 3.
- Moser, H. G. & Ahlstrom, E. H. (1970) Development of lanternfishes (family Myctophidae) in the California Current. Part 1. Species with narrow-eyed larvae. Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, No. 7.