Animalia > Chordata > Myctophiformes > Myctophidae > Benthosema > Benthosema glaciale

Benthosema glaciale (Large-eyed froghead; Lanternfish; Glacier lanternfish; Glacier lantern fish; Glacier lanterfish; Glacial lanternfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Benthosema glaciale, or glacier lantern fish, is the most common species of lanternfish and important part of the midwater ecosystem of northern North Atlantic.
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Infraspecies

Myctophum glaciale var. glaciale

Attributes

Female Maturity [1]  2 years 6 months
Male Maturity [2]  2 years 6 months
Maximum Longevity [1]  8 years

Prey / Diet

Calanus finmarchicus[3]
Calanus glacialis[3]
Calanus hyperboreus[3]
Centropages typicus[4]
Meganyctiphanes norvegica (Norwegian krill)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Reimericotyle ceratoscopeli[7]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Feeding Ecology of the Lantern Fish Benthosema glaciale in a Subarctic Region, D. Sameoto, Polar Biol (1989) 9:169-178
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Winter Diet of Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) in the Northeast Atlantic, Knud Falk, Jens-Kjeld Jensen and Kaj Kampp, Colonial Waterbirds, Vol. 15, No. 2 (1992), pp. 230-235
♦ 6Diet and trophic position of Leach’s storm-petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa during breeding and moult, inferred from stable isotope analysis of feathers, April Hedd, William A. Montevecchi, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 322: 291–301, 2006
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0