Sentence examples for lantern fish from inspiring English sources

Fully grown lantern fish range from about 2.5 to 15 cm (1 to 6 inches) long.

They dine on deep sea fish including lantern fish, owl fish and dragon fish.

Deep-sea anglerfish, hatchetfish, and lantern fish are among the best-known luminescent fishes.

Lantern fish, any of the numerous species of small, abundant, deep-sea fish of the family Myctophidae.

Around 250 different species of myctophids, or lantern fish, like the specimens above, make up much of this dense layer.

Lantern fish (family Myctophidae) are common in the aphotic zone along with gulpers (Saccopharynx), whalefish (family Cetomimidae), seven-gilled sharks, and others.

Some lantern fishes possess, in addition, a large nasal organ; others have a patch of luminous tissue in the tail region.

Many species of deep-sea fish are known south of the Antarctic Convergence, but only three, a barracuda and two lantern fishes, seem to be confined to this zone.

Lantern fishes and hatchetfishes, along with many other deep-sea organisms, possess distinct arrangements of light organs on the body that may serve as species- and sex-recognition patterns.

and bony fishes (including slickheads, orange roughy, lantern fishes, and rattails).

The name lantern-eye fish refers most specifically to the species Anomalops katoptron and Photoblepharon palpebratum, both found in the East Indies.