Vinciguerria lucetia
Creators: name: Bergman, Leah A
name: Montenegro, Javier
name: Seid, Charlotte A
name: Bachtel, Tiffany S
name: Mann, Frazer
name: Thuesen, Erik V
name: Lindsay, Dhugal J
name: Drazen, Jeffrey C
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Stomiiformes
Phosichthyidae
Vinciguerria
Vinciguerria lucetia

description: Vinciguerria lucetia (Garman, 1899)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DL 320; recordedBy: Leah A. Bergman; lifeStage: flexion; otherCatalogNumbers: SP 20211123 Z- 3; associatedSequences: GenBank: PQ 327500; occurrenceID: CCZ _ NORID _ C 5 e _ DL 320; Location: waterBody: Pacific Ocean; stateProvince: Clarion-Clipperton Zone; locality: The Metals Company Ltd exploration contract area (NORI-D); verbatimLocality: NORI-D, CTA; maximumDepthInMeters: 37; locationRemarks: Environmental Expedition C 5 e; decimalLatitude: 10.39116; decimalLongitude: - 117.12285; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Leah A. Bergman, Bruce C. Mundy, Javier Montenegro; Event: samplingProtocol: PN; eventDate: 23/11/2021; eventTime: 20: 56–21: 04 Z; fieldNumber: PN _ 003
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DL 321; recordedBy: Leah A. Bergman; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: preflexion; otherCatalogNumbers: SP 20211125-5; associatedSequences: GenBank (CO 1): PQ 327501; occurrenceID: CCZ _ NORID _ C 5 e _ DL 321; Location: waterBody: Pacific Ocean; stateProvince: Clarion-Clipperton Zone; locality: The Metals Company Ltd exploration contract area (NORI-D); verbatimLocality: NORI-D, CTA; maximumDepthInMeters: 20; locationRemarks: Environmental Expedition C 5 e; decimalLatitude: 10.331383; decimalLongitude: - 117.198422; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Leah A. Bergman, Bruce C. Mundy, Javier Montenegro; Event: samplingProtocol: PN; eventDate: 25/11/2021; eventTime: 15: 22 Z; fieldNumber: PN _ 005
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DL 324; recordedBy: Leah A. Bergman; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: preflexion; otherCatalogNumbers: SP 20211130-12; associatedSequences: GenBank (CO 1): PQ 327503; Genbank (12 S): PQ 351600; occurrenceID: CCZ _ NORID _ C 5 e _ DL 324; Location: waterBody: Pacific Ocean; stateProvince: Clarion-Clipperton Zone; locality: The Metals Company Ltd exploration contract area (NORI-D); verbatimLocality: NORI-D, CTA; maximumDepthInMeters: 7; locationRemarks: Environmental Expedition C 5 e; decimalLatitude: 10.33119; decimalLongitude: - 117.172982; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Leah A. Bergman, Bruce C. Mundy, Javier Montenegro; Event: samplingProtocol: PN; eventDate: 30/11/2021; eventTime: 19: 08–19: 37 Z; fieldNumber: PN _ 007
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DL 322; recordedBy: Leah A. Bergman; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: flexion; otherCatalogNumbers: SP 20211130-10; associatedSequences: GenBank (CO 1): PQ 327502; occurrenceID: CCZ _ NORID _ C 5 e _ DL 322; Location: waterBody: Pacific Ocean; stateProvince: Clarion-Clipperton Zone; locality: The Metals Company Ltd exploration contract area (NORI-D); verbatimLocality: NORI-D, CTA; maximumDepthInMeters: 7; locationRemarks: Environmental Expedition C 5 e; decimalLatitude: 10.33119; decimalLongitude: - 117.172982; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Leah A. Bergman, Bruce C. Mundy, Javier Montenegro; Event: samplingProtocol: PN; eventDate: 30/11/2021; eventTime: 19: 08–19: 37 Z; fieldNumber: PN _ 007
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DL 313; recordedBy: Leah A. Bergman; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: flexion; otherCatalogNumbers: PITA _ 2-7; associatedSequences: GenBank (CO 1): PQ 327504; occurrenceID: CCZ _ NORID _ C 5 e _ DL 313; Location: waterBody: Pacific Ocean; stateProvince: Clarion-Clipperton Zone; locality: The Metals Company Ltd exploration contract area (NORI-D); verbatimLocality: NORI-D, PRZ; maximumDepthInMeters: 60; locationRemarks: Environmental Expedition C 5 e; decimalLatitude: 10.951607; decimalLongitude: - 117.266673; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Leah A. Bergman, Bruce C. Mundy, Javier Montenegro; Event: samplingProtocol: PTN; eventDate: 16/12/2021; eventTime: 07: 18–07: 38 Z; fieldNumber: PNT _ 003
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DL 388; recordedBy: Leah A. Bergman; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: postflexion; otherCatalogNumbers: P 20211216-2; occurrenceID: CCZ _ NORID _ C 5 e _ DL 388; Location: waterBody: Pacific Ocean; stateProvince: Clarion-Clipperton Zone; locality: The Metals Company Ltd exploration contract area (NORI-D); verbatimLocality: NORI-D, PRZ; maximumDepthInMeters: 60; locationRemarks: Environmental Expedition C 5 e; decimalLatitude: 10.951607; decimalLongitude: - 117.266673; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Leah A. Bergman, Bruce C. Mundy, Javier Montenegro; Event: samplingProtocol: PTN; eventDate: 16/12/2021; eventTime: 07: 18–07: 38 Z; fieldNumber: PNT _ 003
Notes
Fig. 5
The COI sequences for five specimens (DL 313, DL 320, DL 321, DL 322, DL 324) matched a reference sequence of V. lucetia (HQ 010067, voucher SIO 09-204) with 100.0 % identity and all other BLAST hits showed <95 % identity. DL 388 was identified through morphology only (Moser 1996). This mesopelagic Pacific species (Fricke et al. 2024) has been previously recorded from Clipperton Atoll (Fourriére et al. 2014) and it is dominant in the larval fish assemblages of the eastern tropical Pacific off Mexico (León-Chávez et al. 2010). V. lucetia larvae are elongate and slender with ovoid eyes and usually possess a large melanophore ventrally near end of the caudal peduncle (Moser 1996).
description: Published as part of Bergman, Leah A, Montenegro, Javier, Seid, Charlotte A, Bachtel, Tiffany S, Mann, Frazer, Thuesen, Erik V, Lindsay, Dhugal J & Drazen, Jeffrey C, 2025, Checklist of ichthyoplankton of NORI-D polymetallic nodule exploration claim (eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone) during winter 2021, pp. e 137744 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e137744, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e137744