Panama Lightfish

Notes

Fig. 5 The COI sequences for five specimens (DL313, DL320, DL321, DL322, DL324) matched a reference sequence of V. lucetia (HQ010067, voucher SIO 09-204) with 100.0% identity and all other BLAST hits showed V. lucetia larvae are elongate and slender with ovoid eyes and usually possess a large melanophore ventrally near end of the caudal peduncle (Moser 1996).

Checklist of ichthyoplankton of NORI-D polymetallic nodule exploration claim (eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone) during winter 2021

description

Panama Lightfish. To 6.6 cm (2.6 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Larvae found as far north as off San Francisco, northern California and metamorphosing individuals found as far north as central California (34 ° 54 ’ W) (Ahlstrom and Counts 1958) to northern Chile (Sielfeld et al. 1995), including Gulf of California (De La Cruz-Agüero and Galván-Magaña 1992). Depth: surface perhaps to 4,409 m (14,460 ft) (min.: Ahstrom and Counts 1958; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Deep records in both the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Los Angeles County Natural History fish collection databases are based on the maximum depth fished by a midwater trawl and may represent a catch shallower than the maximum depth.

Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico