Accurate fish illustration of the Southern Blacktip Lanternfish,Gymnoscopelus piabilis on white background , side view. It is mostly brown colouring, has large eyes, pale fins and photophores on the body.
Accurate fish illustration of the Southern Blacktip Lanternfish,Gymnoscopelus piabilis on white background , side view. It is mostly brown colouring, has large eyes, pale fins and photophores on the body.
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Southern Blacktip Lanternfish,Gymnoscopelus piabilis

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Description

Reference

IB1078

Category

Fishes

Family Name

Lanternfishes - MYCTOPHIDAE

Common Name

Southern Blacktip Lanternfish

Scientific Name

Gymnoscopelus piabilis

Artist Name

Roger Swainston

Notes

Lanternfishes are an important part of the food chain in the open ocean, feeding on a variety of zooplankton in the nutrient rich upper layers of the water. They are preyed on by a wide range of pelagic fishes, as well as mammals such as whales and seals even seabirds and contitute the largest proportion, by biomass, of deepwater pelagic fishes.

Source : Swainston’s Fishes of Australia

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