Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cyclothone pallida
Luciérnaga bicolor
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
- 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.