Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Lampanyctus macropterus (Brauer, 1904)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Teleostei

Order
Myctophiformes

Family
Myctophidae

Genus
Lampanyctus

Species
macropterus

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Lampanyctus basili Kotthaus, 1972, Lampanyctus macropterus novaeguineae Fowler, 1958, Lampanyctus macropterus taningi Angel & Verrier, 1931, Myctophum macropterum Brauer, 1904, Serpa freta Whitley, 1936 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea. Western Central Pacific and Eastern Central Pacific. South China Sea (Froese and Pauly, 2021).

References

  • 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, Lampanyctus macropterus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24790. Accessed 5 November 2026.