Finding a mate is of the utmost importance for organisms, and the traits associated with successfully finding one can be under strong selective pressures. In habitats where biomass and population density is often low, like the enormous open spaces of

Mesopelagic fish specimens from two stations in the NW African Upwelling were identified and catalogued to produce a Darwin Core-aligned dataset. A total of 9655 individual fishes were identified, with 9017 specimens identified at least to genus level

Although mesopelagic fishes have long been considered to be an important ecological link between zooplankton and top predators, constituting at the same time a significant factor in carbon transfer dynamics, studies of their feeding ecology have until