Diaphus coeruleus és una espècie de peix de la família dels mictòfids i de l'ordre dels mictofiformes.

Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 13,7 cm de longitud total.FishBase Weitkamp, D.E. i R.D. Sullivan, 1939. Fishes. The John Murray Expedition 1933-1934. Sci. Reports, John Murray Exped., 25 Nov., v. 7 (núm. 1): 1-116.

Depredadors Al Japó és depredat per Synagrops japonicus, Caelorinchus smithi, Congriscus megastomus, Diaphus coeruleus i Neoscopelus macrolepidotus.FishBase

Hàbitat És un peix marí i d'aigües profundes que viu entre 457-549 m de fondària.Weitkamp, D.E. i R.D. Sullivan, 1939.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba al mar RoigKhalaf, M.A., 2005. Fish fauna of the Jordanian Coast, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Journal of King AbdulAziz University-Marine Sciences. Vol. 15.Baranes, A. i D. Golani, 1993. An annotated list of the deep-sea fishes collected in the northern Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba. Isr.l J. Zool. 39:299-336.Al Sakaff, H. i M. Esseen, 1999. Length-weight relationship of fishes from Yemen waters (Gulf of Aden and Red Sea). Naga ICLARM Q. 22(1):41-42. i la Mar d'Andaman,Kao, P.-H. i K.-T. Shao, 1996. Five new records of lanternfishes, genus Diaphus, (Pisces: Myctophidae) from Taiwan. Acta Zool. Taiwanica 7(2):1-8. Papua Nova Guinea,Kailola, P.J., 1987. The fishes of Papua New Guinea. A revised and annotated checklist. Vol. 1. Myxinidae to Synbranchidae. Research Bulletin Núm. 41. Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Port Moresby, Papua Nova Guinea. 194 p. Indonèsia,Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. i P.J. Kailola, 1984. Trawled fishes of southern Indonesia and northwestern Australia. Australian Development Assistance Bureau, Austràlia, Directorate General of Fishes, Indonèsia i German Agency for Technical Cooperation, República Federal d'Alemanya. 407 p. Taiwan,Wang, J.T.-M. i C.-T. Chen, 2001. A review of lanternfishes (Families: Myctophidae and Neoscopelidae) and their distributions around Taiwan and the Tungsha islands with notes on seventeen new records. Zool. Stud. 40(2):103-126. les Illes Chesterfield,Kulbicki, M., J.E. Randall i J. Rivaton, 1994. Checklist of the fishes of the Chesterfield Islands (Coral Sea). Micronesica 27(1/2):1-43. AustràliaPaxton, J.R., D.F. Hoese, G.R. Allen i J.E. Hanley, 1989. Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 665 p. i el Mar de la Xina Meridional.Yang, J., Z. Huang, S. Chen i Q. Li, 1996. The Deep-Water Pelagic Fishes in the Area form Nansha Islands To the Northeast part of South China Sea Science Publication Company, Beijing. 190 pp.

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