Galapagos Species Database

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Cyclothone pallida Brauer, 1902

Luciérnaga bicolor

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Teleostei

Order
Stomiiformes

Family
Gonostomatidae

Genus
Cyclothone

Species
pallida

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Cyclothone canina Gilbert, 1905, Cyclothone microdon pallidon Brauer, 1902 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Status

Least concern

References

  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
  • Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
  • IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org

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"Galapagos Species Database, Cyclothone pallida", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24753. Accessed 18 July 2025.