Oceanic lightfish

Vinciguerria nimbaria

Vinciguerria nimbaria is a small deep-sea fish from the family of glowing fish ( Phosichthyidae ), which is widely distributed in the Atlantic and Pacific. Evidence of the way there from the western Atlantic in Canada, Florida, Cuba and the West Indies, from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, from tropical areas of the eastern Atlantic, from the eastern Pacific in California and Chile as well as from the South China Sea.

Features

Vinciguerria nimbaria is a very small deep-sea fish, which is only 3.7 cm long usually. Sexual maturity he gained with a length of 3.4 cm, the previously determined maximum length is 4.8 cm. Its back is dark, the sides of the body silvery. The upper portion of the pectoral fins and the outer region of the caudal fin are speckled. The dorsal fin is supported 13-15 fin rays in the anal fin there are 13 to 16 The anal fin begins below the middle of the dorsal fin or just behind it. Vinciguerria nimbaria has arranged in rows light organs on the abdomen and two below the eye. The light organs are formed at a length of 1.8 to 2 cm.

Way of life

Vinciguerria nimbaria holds during the day mostly at depths of 200 to 400 m, but there were also catches from a depth of 5000 m. The fish rise to at depths above 100 m at night. They feed mainly on copepods.