Electrona carlsbergi

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Electrona carlsbergi
Temporal range: 11–0  Ma
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Late Miocene to Present [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Myctophiformes
Family: Myctophidae
Genus: Electrona
Species:
E. carlsbergi
Binomial name
Electrona carlsbergi
(Tåning, 1932)
Synonyms
  • Myctophum carlsbergiTåning, 1932

Electrona carlsbergi, the Electron subantarctic lanternfish, is a species of lanternfish inhabiting the Southern Ocean, which surrounds various Subantarctic and Antarctic islands.

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Etymology

The fish is named in honor of the Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, the research arm of the Carlsberg Foundation, which financed the Dana Expedition that collected the type specimen. [2]

Description

This species reaches a length of 11.2 cm (4.4 in). [3] Their life span is about five years, in which they mature after 2–3 years. They feed mainly on copepods, but also on other crustaceans such as hyperiids (amphipods) and euphausiids (krill). [4]

This species inhabits waters to the south of the Antarctic Convergence up to the Antarctic coast. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  2. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order MYCTOPHIFORMES (Lanternfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 1 March 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Electrona carlsbergi". FishBase . February 2015 version.
  4. ↑ Giovanni, T.M, Wing-Keong Ng, Douglas Redford Tocher. "Fish Oil Replacement and Alternative Lipid Sources in Aquaculture Feeds">"Alternative Marine Resources". Fish Oil Replacement and Alternative Lipid Sources in Aquaculture Feeds, 2011.
  5. ↑ Hulley, P.A., 1990. Myctophidae. p. 146-178. In O. Gon and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Fishes of the Southern Ocean. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa.


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