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Anomalopidae
Splitfin flashlightfish
Anomalops katoptron
Shoals emerge along cave dropoffs on moonless nights
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- East Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
MediumSplitfin flashlightfish is known from Pacific Ocean as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Roughies and Allies
- Family
- Anomalopidae
- Genus
- Anomalops
- Maximum length
- 35 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Pacific Ocean: Philippines and Indonesia to the Tuamoto Islands, north to southern Japan, south to the Great Barrier Reef.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
