Lanternfish
Notolychnus valdiviae
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
- Notolychnus
Where to Find
Found in 34 diving areas across 22 countries and 8 regions.
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 34 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 17 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 2 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 8 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 1 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 22 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 4 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 4 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 299 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 1 records
- María la Gorda, Cuba - 2 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 2 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 6 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 1 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 1 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 7 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 4 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 2 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 1 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 7 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 8 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 2 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 4 records
- Algarve & Berlengas, Portugal - 6 records
- Azores, Portugal - 2 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 1 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 1 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 1 records