Fish of the Cyclothone genus of the Gonostomatidae (bristlemouths, or lightfishes, or anglemouths) family of the Gonostomatoidei suborder of the Stomiiformes order of the Stenopterygii superorder.
(Cyclothone pygmaea. Photo by © Francesco Costa. colapisci.it)
Cyclothone pygmaea was first described in 1926 by Danish biologists Poul Christian Jespersen (1891-1951) and Åge Vedel Tåning (1890-1958).
Bathypelagic species. It occurs at the depth of 500-1.000 meters. The maximum recorded length is 3.5 cm, usually up to 2 cm. It feeds on zooplankton.
It is a permanent inhabitant of the southern part of the Adriatic Sea.
Names of Cyclothone pygmaea in other languages are as follows:
Boccatonda nana (Italian), Nosočica mrka, Nosočica mrkulja (Serbian, Croatian).