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Where does the Warming’s lanternfish live?

Ceratoscopelus warmingii has 8,651 records in 95 countries and territories, from 1866 to 2026. Most records come from ZZ.

Warming’s lanternfish
Warming’s lanternfish — Photo: Dr Tony Ayling · CC BY-SA 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataMyctophiformesMyctophidaeCeratoscopelus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18662026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
ZZ 1,307
New Caledonia 826
United States 808
Indonesia 578
Bermuda 574
Spain 417
Australia 355
Philippines 225
Tanzania 201
Canada 142
Taiwan 142
Seychelles 126
Japan 119
South Africa 117
Portugal 80
Papua New Guinea 77
Bahamas 61
French Polynesia 59
New Zealand 49
Madagascar 48
Fiji 47
Mexico 47
China 40
Brazil 35
Kiribati 32
Cabo Verde 31
Mozambique 31
American Samoa 27
Tokelau 27
Palau 26
India 24
Micronesia 21
Namibia 18
Barbados 16
Chile 16
Pakistan 15
Saint Helena 15
United States Minor Outlying Islands 15
Malaysia 14
Vietnam 13

Showing the top 40 of 95 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.