Lampanyctus festivus

Lampanyctus festivus is a species of lanternfish. It is found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. It is a mesopelagic fish that undertakes diel vertical migration. It grows to about 14 cm (5.5 in) standard length. It is an important component in the diet of forkbeard Phycis phycis off the Azores.

No picture of Lampanyctus festivus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lampanyctus festivus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LampanyctusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes

Time the record covers

At most 1.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1.8 Mya and 774 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePleistocene1.8–1.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.0–949 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences949 ka–882 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences882 ka–814 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences814 ka–747 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.3 Mya274 ka

1 occurrence of Lampanyctus festivus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Hijikata — 34.65°N, 138.04°E

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The named rock units Lampanyctus festivus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lampanyctus festivus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lampanyctus festivus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lampanyctus festivus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Lampanyctus festivus · MCZ:Ich:53688

No picture of Lampanyctus festivus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lampanyctus festivus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLampanyctus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tåning 1928)