WoRMS taxon details
Protomyctophum crockeri (Bolin, 1939)
272731 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272731)
accepted
Species
Electrona crockeri Bolin, 1939 · unaccepted
Hierops crockeri (Bolin, 1939) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Electrona crockeri Bolin, 1939) Bolin, R.L. (1939). A review of the myctophid fishes of the Pacific coast of the United States and of Lower California. <em>Stanford Ichthyol. Bull.</em> 1(4): 89-156. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Protomyctophum crockeri (Bolin, 1939). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=272731 on 2025-12-16
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Electrona crockeri Bolin, 1939) Bolin, R.L. (1939). A review of the myctophid fishes of the Pacific coast of the United States and of Lower California. <em>Stanford Ichthyol. Bull.</em> 1(4): 89-156. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | penlight fishCalifornia flashlightfish | [details] |
| French | télescope californien | [details] |
| Japanese | ムカシハダカ | [details] |
| Spanish | linternilla luciérnaga | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Electrona crockeri Bolin, 1939)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Hierops crockeri (Bolin, 1939))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Protomyctophum crockeri)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Electrona crockeri Bolin, 1939)
To FishBase (from synonym Hierops crockeri (Bolin, 1939))
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 12 proteins) (from synonym Electrona crockeri Bolin, 1939)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 12 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Electrona crockeri Bolin, 1939)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Hierops crockeri (Bolin, 1939))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Protomyctophum crockeri)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Electrona crockeri Bolin, 1939)
To FishBase (from synonym Hierops crockeri (Bolin, 1939))
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 12 proteins) (from synonym Electrona crockeri Bolin, 1939)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 12 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
