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Stomias boa, also known as the boa dragonfish, scaly dragonfish, dragon-boa or boa scaly dragonfish, is a species of deep-sea fish in the family Stomiidae. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 3 ] [ 7 ] It is found at great depths worldwide in tropical to temperate oceans but is absent from the northern Pacific and northwest Atlantic Oceans .
Barbeled dragonfish, a small bioluminescent deep-sea fish of the family Stomiidae; Several species of fish of the family Pegasidae; Violet goby, an eel-like brackish-water fish; Polypterus senegalus, a fish of the family Polypteridae; Asian arowana, a bonytongue fish of the family Osteoglossidae
Stomiiformes / ˈ s t ɒ m i. ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of deep-sea ray-finned fishes of very diverse morphology.It includes, for example, dragonfishes, lightfishes (Gonostomatidae and Phosichthyidae), loosejaws, marine hatchetfishes and viperfishes.
Stomiidae is a family of deep-sea ray-finned fish, including the barbeled dragonfishes.They are quite small, usually around 15 cm, up to 26 cm. These fish are apex predators and have enormous jaws filled with fang-like teeth. [1]
Echiostoma barbatum, the threadfin dragonfish, is a species of barbeled dragonfish and is the only known species in its genus. It is widespread through tropical to temperate waters in all oceans in mid to deep waters up to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft). [ 1 ]
Melanostomias niger, the fangtooth dragonfish, is a species of fish from the Melanostomias genus that is native to the Eastern Indian Ocean, Southeast Atlantic and Southwest Pacific. It measures up to 26 cm (10 in) in length, and has between 17 and 20 anal soft rays and 15 to 17 anal spines.
It is sometimes called dragon-boa, dragonfish or boa dragonfish, [12] [13] but those names are equally applied to Stomias boa as a species, or the S. boa boa subspecies. In Icelandic it is marsnákur ("sea snake") and in Norwegian storkjeft ("big jaw").
Stomias boa boa (A. Risso, 1810) (Boa dragonfish) Stomias boa colubrinus Garman, 1899; Stomias boa ferox J. C. H. Reinhardt, 1842; Stomias brevibarbatus Ege, 1918; Stomias danae Ege, 1933; Stomias gracilis Garman, 1899; Stomias lampropeltis Gibbs, 1969; Stomias longibarbatus (A. B. Brauer, 1902) (Longbarb scaly dragonfish) Stomias nebulosus ...