Spotted Lanternfish
Myctophum nitidulum
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Myctophiformes
- Family
- Myctophidae
- Genus
- Myctophum
Where to Find
Found in 61 diving areas across 40 countries and 8 regions.
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 29 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 6 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 6 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 6 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 4 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 6 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 8 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 5 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 5 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 21 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 15 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 15 records
- Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands - 1 records
- María la Gorda, Cuba - 3 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 1 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 1 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 1 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 2 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 4 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 2 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 6 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 1 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 2 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 7 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 3 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 5 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 1 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 1 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 2 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 3 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 4 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 17 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 15 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 29 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 1 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 1 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 1 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 3 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 2 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Sal, Cape Verde - 1 records
- Vaavu Atoll, Maldives - 6 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 3 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 8 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 3 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 1 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 1 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 4 records
- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador - 5 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 1 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 1 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 7 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 4 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 7 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 3 records