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lanternfish /ˈlantənfɪʃ /noun (plural same or lanternfishes)A deep-sea fish that has light organs on its body, seen chiefly when it rises to the surface at night.- Family Myctophidae: several genera and species.
Midwater species, such as lanternfishes, hatchetfishes and dragonfishes have rows of lights along the underside of the body, probably for mating and identification as well as foraging....- The Galaxoidea, in turn, are paraphyletic and contain the Stomiiformes (lanternfishes) which are often regarded as part of the Stenopterygii.
- Ayres found a lanternfish at Old Man's Harbor ‘rolled and chafed by the tide’ on 31 October 1841.
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