Animalia > Chordata > Stomiiformes > Stomiidae > Stomias

Stomias (scaly dragonfishes)

Synonyms: Macrostomias; Pseudeustomias; Pseudostomias; Stomia; Stomiasunculus

Wikipedia Abstract

Stomias is a genus of barbeled dragonfishes. They live in the mesopelagic zone of all oceans and show diel vertical migration and sexual dimorphism (males are smaller, have larger eyes and larger postorbital photophores than females.
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Species

Stomias affinis (Dragonfish)
Stomias atriventer (Blackbelly dragonfish)
Stomias boa (boa dragonfish)
Stomias brevibarbatus (shortbarbel dragonfish)
Stomias colubrinus
Stomias danae
Stomias fusus
Stomias gracilis (Scaly viperfish)
Stomias hexagonatus
Stomias lampropeltis
Stomias leucopterus
Stomias longibarbatus (Scaly dragonfish)
Stomias longipinnis
Stomias nebulosus (Alcock's boafish)
Stomias niger
Stomias unicolor
Stomias variegatus

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0