How far can you swim? Every evening, lanternfish swim up from a depth of 300-1500 m (980-4,920 ft) to feed on zooplankton at the surface of the ocean. This is quite the impressive feat considering that the change in pressure is as much as 50 atmospheres and the temperature can change up to 20°C (36°F); all this compounded by the fact that largest lanternfish is only 30 cm (11.81 in) long!

Hoshino Ichika - Lantern fish

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Myctophum punctatum aka Lanternfish are small mesopelagic fish of the large family Myctophidae. Lanternfishes are aptly named after their conspicuous use of bioluminescence.

Day 16 gives us Gwen from Total Drama Island!

I based her tail off of a Lanternfish, hence the white dots!

A set of stickers based on those deep sea fish I drew in Aseprite a while back.

Available here

Lanternfish!

lanternfish are bioluminescent deep sea fish!

the light is produced by tiny organs called photophores

there are over two hundred different species of lanternfish in many deep oceans of the world!

lanternfish make up over 65% of the deep sea’s biomass

they live in large schools and during the night they come up closer to the surface in search of food

there’s one species of lanternfish unable to produce light!