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The spotted lanternfish is one of over 250 species of lanternfish found in the world's oceans. Lanternfish are rather unprepossessing, small spindle-shaped fish with large eyes.
Lanternfishes (or myctophids, from the Greek mykter, "nose" and ophis, "serpent") are small, deep sea fish of the large family Myctophidae. They are aptly named after their conspicuous use of bioluminescence.
Dwarf Lanternfish (Etmopterus perryi), which is about 7 1/2 to 8 inches (19 - 20 cm) long for fully-grown females and 6 to 7 inches (16 - 17.5 cm) long for adult males ...
A Humpback Blackdevil with a Multitspotted Lanternfish
A Humpback Blackdevil with mouth extended
A Humpback Snapper at Great Detached Reef
A Humphead Maori Wrasse at 'Marine World'
A Humpnose Big-eye Bream at Osprey Reef ...
shads, barracudinas, lanternfishes, and pouts).[5] Sharks off Italy also eat small amounts of nematodes, polychaete worms, and other cartilaginous fishes.
After breeding and migrating to the North Pacific, their diets consist largely of deep-water lanternfishes and squid.
Schools of squid surface at night to hunt lanternfish, shrimp, mollusks, and other cephalopods. They are also known to cannibalize other jumbo squid that have been maimed or captured in nets.
King Penguins eat small fish, mainly lanternfish, and squid and rely less than most Southern Ocean predators on krill and other crustaceans. On foraging trips they repeatedly dive to over 100 metres (330 ft), often over 200 metres (660 ft).
Jumbo squid, Dosidicus gigas, surface at night to feed on lanternfish, mackerels, sardines, shrimp, mollusks and other cephalopods. These aggressive predators use powerful arms and barbed suckers to pull prey toward their razor sharp beaks.
MYCTOPHIFORMES
blackchins, lanternfishes
LAMPRIFORMES
opahs, velifers, crestfishes, tapertails, ribbonfishes, oarfishes, thread-tails ...
Birds
Diet:
small fishes, anchovies, capelin, lanternfishes, rockfishes, squid, krill, invertebrates.
Size:
15 in. (35 cm)
Range:
North Pacific
Relatives:
horned puffin, Atlantic puffin ...
Chicks hatch at the end of the austral summer and over-winter in creches prior to fledging the following spring. Adults can be seen at breeding sites throughout the year, but individuals forage long distances, feeding mainly on small Lanternfish at ...
Abundant shrimp-like krill, small bioluminescent lanternfish, and medium-sized Shortfin Squid are common inhabitants of this layer. They, in turn, provide food for the predatory fish, whales, dolphins, and birds that forage in the canyons.
Midwater species, such as lanternfishes , hatchetfishes and dragonfishes have rows of lights along the underside of the body, probably for mating and identification as well as foraging.
 See also: Squid, Whale, Shark, Coral, Shrimp
  
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