Any of small, deep sea fish of the large family Myctophidae, named after their conspicuous use of bioluminescence.(noun)
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Use "lanternfish" in a sentence
"Students travelled to the garbage patch to take samples, and found bits of plastic in the digestive systems of small fish such as lanternfish and hatchetfish."
"And there is plenty of food here-both the trawls and acoustic surveys have revealed an abundant supply of myctophid lanternfish, the most common prey eaten by large Humboldt squid in these waters in other years."
""If tuna is eating a lot of lanternfish, it is indirectly ingesting the plastic that might be in the lanternfish's stomach," Davison said."