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Stomias boa (boa dragonfish)

Synonyms: Stomias elongatus atlanticus

Infraspecies

Stomias boa boa (Boa dragonfish)
Stomias boa ferox (Boa dragonfish)

Predators

Deania calcea (Thompsons shark)[1]
Kogia sima (Dwarf Sperm Whale)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ceratobothrium xanthocephalum[3]
Tentacularia coryphaenae[3]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Feeding ecology of deep fishes in the Le Danois Bank (Cantabrian Sea, North Spain), Preciado, I., Cartes, J., Velasco, F., Olaso, I., Serrano, A., Frutos, I., Sánchez, F., nternational Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay (Vigo, Spain) (2006)
♦ 2Kogia simus, David Nagorsen, Mammalian Species No. 239, pp. 1-6 (1985)
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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