Electrona antarctica

The Electrona antarctica lives in the bathypelagic, oceanodromous, marine environment.

Electrona antarctica and Bathylagus antarcticus are dominant fishes in the Southern Ocean pelagic ecosystem with disparate life histories, making them excellent subjects for comparative studies. More

Electrona antarctica}also are important prey items of Adelie penguins. In addition, proportions of these prey items appear to vary with climate change (Emslie et al. 1998). More

we are working, Electrona antarctica is one of the main species; this species as well as Krefftichthys anderssoni and Protomyctophum bolini are also known further north, especially around the Kerguelen Islands. Other surprises, like melamphids, bathylagids and macrourids, arrived in the net from 1000m. More

Habitat modelling of Electrona antarctica (Myctophidae, Pisces) in Kerguelen by generalized additive models and geographic information systems Export = by: Loots, Christophe, Koubbi, Philippe, Duhamel, GuyPolar Biology, Vol. 30, No. 8. (July 2007), pp. 951-959. More

Electrona antarctica on Fish Mapper TSN 623809 (Taxonomic Serial Number) Retrieved on from the Integrated Taxonomic Information System online database. This is a cached copy. More

Common names

электрона антарктическая in Russian (русский язык)
南极电灯鱼 in Mandarin Chinese
南極電燈魚 in Mandarin Chinese

Order : Myctophiformes
Family : Myctophidae
Genus : Electrona
Species : Electrona antarctica
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