Electrona carlsbergi
{{Short description|Species of deep-sea fish}}
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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|11|0}}
Late Miocene to Present{{cite journal
|last=Sepkoski
|first=Jack
|title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera
|journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology
|volume=364
|page=560
|year=2002
|url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class
|access-date=2008-01-08
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class
|archive-date=2011-07-23
}}
| taxon = Electrona carlsbergi
| authority = (Tåning, 1932)
|synonyms = *Myctophum carlsbergi Tåning, 1932
}}
Electrona carlsbergi, the Electron subantarctic lanternfish, is a species of lanternfish inhabiting the Southern Ocean, which surrounds various Subantarctic and Antarctic islands.
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of the Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, the research arm of the Carlsberg Foundation, which financed the Dana Expedition that collected the type specimen.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/myctophiformes/ | title =Order MYCTOPHIFORMES (Lanternfishes) | access-date= 1 March 2023 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}
Description
This species reaches a length of {{convert|11.2|cm|in|abbr=on}}.{{FishBase |genus= Electrona |species= carlsbergi| month = February | year = 2015}} Their life span is about five years, in which they mature after 2–3 years. They feed mainly on copepods, but also on other crustaceans such as hyperiids (amphipods) and euphausiids (krill).Giovanni, T.M, Wing-Keong Ng, Douglas Redford Tocher. "Fish Oil Replacement and Alternative Lipid Sources in Aquaculture Feeds">"Alternative Marine Resources". Fish Oil Replacement and Alternative Lipid Sources in Aquaculture Feeds, 2011.
This species inhabits waters to the south of the Antarctic Convergence up to the Antarctic coast.Hulley, P.A., 1990. Myctophidae. p. 146-178. In O. Gon and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Fishes of the Southern Ocean. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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Category:Taxa named by Åge Vedel Tåning
Category:Fish described in 1932
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