Tarletonbeania taylori

{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn |author=Williams, A. |year=2019 |title=''Tarletonbeania taylori'' |volume=2019 |article-number=e.T130353324A130414460 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T130353324A130414460.en |access-date=17 May 2021}}</ref> | taxon = Tarletonbeania taylori | authority = Mead, 1953 }}

'''''Tarletonbeania taylori''''', also known as the '''North Pacific lanternfish''', is a species of lanternfish.<ref name=IUCN/><ref name=FishBase/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282928|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Tarletonbeania taylori Mead, 1953|website=www.marinespecies.org|language=en|access-date=2018-02-06}}</ref> It is found in the North Pacific.<ref name=IUCN/><ref name=FishBase/> It grows to {{convert|7|cm|abbr=on}} standard length.<ref name=FishBase/>

==Etymology== The fish is named in honor of oceanographer Frederick Henry Carlyle Taylor (b. 1919), of the Pacific Biological Station in Namaimo, British Columbia, Canada.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/myctophiformes/ | title = Order MYCTOPHIFORMES (Lanternfishes) | access-date = 23 March 2023 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018 | archive-date = 1 March 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230301233005/https://etyfish.org/myctophiformes/ }}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=FishBase>{{FishBase |genus=Tarletonbeania |species=taylori |month=February |year=2021}}</ref> }}

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Category:Myctophidae Category:Fish of the Pacific Ocean Category:Fish described in 1953 Category:Taxa named by Giles Willis Mead