Diogenichthys laternatus (Garman, 1899)

Bergman, Leah A, Montenegro, Javier, Seid, Charlotte A, Bachtel, Tiffany S, Mann, Frazer, Thuesen, Erik V, Lindsay, Dhugal J & Drazen, Jeffrey C, 2025, Checklist of ichthyoplankton of NORI-D polymetallic nodule exploration claim (eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone) during winter 2021, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 137744-e 137744 : e137744-

Diogenichthys laternatus (Garman, 1899)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DL 312 ; recordedBy: Leah A. Bergman; lifeStage: postflexion; otherCatalogNumbers: OY 34 - SS 1; occurrenceID: CCZ _ NORID _ C 5 e _ DL 312; Location: waterBody: Pacific Ocean; stateProvince: Clarion-Clipperton Zone; locality: The Metals Company Ltd exploration contract area (NORI-D) ; verbatimLocality: NORI-D, CTA; minimumDepthInMeters: 75; maximumDepthInMeters: 1500; locationRemarks: Environmental Expedition C 5 e; decimalLatitude: 10.37227; decimalLongitude: - 117.17892; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Leah A. Bergman, Bruce C. Mundy, Javier Montenegro; Event: samplingProtocol: ROV Odysseus ; eventDate: 06/12/2021; fieldNumber: OY 34

Notes

Fig. 6

This abundant mesopelagic species occurs in the central and eastern Pacific ( Evseenko 2006, Fricke et al. 2024). Adults have been recorded from Clipperton Atoll ( Fourriére et al. 2014) and it is dominant in the larval fish assemblages of the eastern tropical Pacific off Mexico, Ecuador, Peru and Chile ( Evseenko 2006, León-Chávez et al. 2010). D. lanternatus larvae are characterised by elliptical eyes, moderately-sized head and a melanophore on trunk above pre-anal arch of gut ( Moser 1996).

Figures

Figure 6. DL 312 captured with the ROV Odysseus suction sampler during OY 34.