Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Gonichthys tenuiculus
Linterna cola aguda, Slendertail lanternfish
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Myctophiformes
Family
Myctophidae
Genus
Gonichthys
Species
tenuiculus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Gonichthys tenuicolus (Garman, 1899), Myctophum tenuiculum Garman, 1899 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Eastern Pacific: region between 32°N and 22°S, including Chile (Froese and Pauly, 2021).
- Froese, R. D. Pauly. Eds. (2021) FishBase World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org,
- 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.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Gonichthys tenuiculus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24785. Accessed 5 November 2026.