Electrona risso

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| image2 = Electrona risso specimen.jpg

| image2_caption = Freshly caught specimen of Electrona risso

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

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| image = Electrona risso.jpg

| taxon = Electrona risso

| authority = (Cocco, 1829)

| synonyms = * Scopelus risso Cocco, 1829

• Myctophum risso (Cocco, 1829)

• Electrona rissoi (Cocco, 1829)

• Scopelus rissoi (Cocco, 1829)

• Myctophum rissoi (Cocco, 1849)

| range_map = Electrona rissodist.jpg

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Electrona risso is a species of myctophiform ray-finned fish in the family Myctophidae, the lanternfishes. It is known commonly as the electric lantern fish, chubby flashlight fish,Hulley, P. 2015. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/198615/0 Electrona risso.] The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 18 February 2016. and Risso's lantern-fish.[http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Electrona+risso Electrona risso.] Atlas of Living Australia. It is a widespread species of all the oceans.Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Editors. [http://fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1714 Electrona risso.] FishBase. 2015.Hulley, P.A., 1990. Myctophidae. p. 398–467. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI; Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1.

File:Electrona risso photophores.jpg

The male reaches a maximum length of about 8.2 centimeters. It becomes sexually mature at about 5.9 centimeters.

This species is epipelagic to mesopelagic, living at depths of 90 to 820 meters, swimming at shallower depths during daylight hours. Its main food items are copepods.{{Cite journal

| volume = 19

| pages = 79–85

| last = Podrazhanskaya

| first = S. G.

| title = Feeding habits of mesopelagic species of fish and estimation of plankton graze in the northwest Atlantic

| journal = NAFO Scientific Council Studies

| year = 1993

| url = http://www.nafo.int/publications/studies/abstracts/s19p79.html

| access-date = 2012-04-27

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150605015952/http://www.nafo.int/publications/studies/abstracts/s19p79.html

| archive-date = 2015-06-05

| url-status = dead

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