Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Lampanyctus tenuiformis
Slender lanternfish
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Myctophiformes
Family
Myctophidae
Genus
Lampanyctus
Species
tenuiformis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Lampanyctus tenuiformes (Brauer, 1906), Myctophum tenuiforme Brauer, 1906 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Senegal to the Angola Current. Western Atlantic: 17°N to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico. Indian Ocean: between 7°N and 4°S, east of 70°E. Pacific Ocean: in tropical waters; reported from New Zealand. South China Sea (Froese and Pauly, 2021).
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- 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.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Lampanyctus tenuiformis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24793. Accessed 9 June 2026.