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Summary for Benthosema glaciale Larvae
Glacier lanternfish

Benthosema  glaciale  (Reinhardt, 1837)
Family:	Myctophidae (Lanternfishes)
Order:	Myctophiformes
Class:	Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
English name:	Glacier lanternfish
Distribution:	Eastern Atlantic: Norway and Greenland south to Morocco, and from Mauritania to Guinea (Mauritanian Upwelling Region). Seasonally present from Morocco to Mauritania along the edge of the continental shelf. Also known from the Mediterranean Sea. Western Atlantic: Baffin Bay to northern edge of Gulf Stream. Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951).
Adult biology:	High-oceanic, mesopelagic at depths between 375-800 m during daytime and 12-200 m during night. Depth range from 0-850 m (Ref. 4479) and from 541-1085 m in the eastern Ionian Sea (Ref. 56504). Photophores present. Feeds mainly on calanoid copepods, also euphausiids and copepodites. Feeding occurs at night in Norwegian fjords (Ref. 9209) and in northwest Africa (Ref. 9194). Mature from about 3 cm onward. Spawning peaks in the Mediterranean in late spring with east-to-west progression. Female produces 160-2,000 eggs depending on her size (Ref. 35388).
Diagnosis:	Light organs appear at 15 mm length. Anal cluster of melanophores. See also LARVAE table.
Climate Zone:	deep-water; 81°N - 11°N
Main Ref:	Ehrenbaum, E.. 1905. (Ref. 41)
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	Checked: Giovanardi, Otello	Modified: Froese, Rainer	Entered: Papasissi, Christine

	Ref.:				Glossary
		(e.g. 9948)				(e.g. urostyle)

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