Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Triphoturus mexicanus
Linternilla mexicana, Mexican lampfish
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Myctophiformes
Family
Myctophidae
Genus
Triphoturus
Species
mexicanus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Myctophum mexicanum Gilbert, 1890 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Eastern Pacific: California, USA and Gulf of California to Peru and 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.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Triphoturus mexicanus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24797. Accessed 5 November 2026.