Southern blacktip lanternfish

Gymnoscopelus piabilis

Living Lantern of New Zealand Waters

Black
Cross-climate
Polar
Subtropical
Temperate
Circumpolar Antarctic
Transcontinental
Marine fish
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Africa
Oceania
Polar regions
South America
Elongated
Small
Temperate fish

Southern blacktip lanternfish is a marine fish of Generally ranges between the Subtropical Convergence and the Antarctic. The species occupies deep water. Records give a maximum length of 14.6 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Lanternfishes
Family: Myctophidae
Genus: Gymnoscopelus
Maximum length: 14.6 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Generally ranges between the Subtropical Convergence and the Antarctic Polar Front (Atlantic Sector to south of Australia/New Zealand), but with northern extensions in eastern boundary currents; absent in the sub-Antarctic region of the Pacific. There is a beach-washed specimen from Port Alfred, South Africa (Ref. 4066 ). Also found in Argentina (Ref. 86326 ) and Uruguay (Ref. 54736 ).
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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