Stomias
Stomias | |
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Gunther's boafish (S. affinis) | |
Boa dragonfish (S. boa boa) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Stomiiformes |
Family: | Stomiidae |
Subfamily: | |
Genus: | Stomias G. Cuvier, 1816 |
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.[1]
Species[]
There are currently nine recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Stomias affinis Günther, 1887 (Günther's boafish)
- Garman, 1899 (Black-belly dragonfish)
- Stomias boa (A. Risso, 1810)
- Stomias boa boa (A. Risso, 1810) (Boa dragonfish)
- Garman, 1899
- Stomias boa ferox J. C. H. Reinhardt, 1842
- , 1918
- , 1933
- Garman, 1899
- Gibbs, 1969
- (A. B. Brauer, 1902) (Longbarb scaly dragonfish)
- Alcock, 1889 (Alcock's boafish)
References[]
- ^ Gibbs, Robert H. (1969). "Taxonomy, sexual dimorphism, vertical distribution, and evolutionary zoogeography of the bathypelagic fish genus Stomias (Stomiatidae)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 31 (31): 1–25. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.31. hdl:10088/5259.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Stomias in FishBase. February 2012 version.
Categories:
- Stomiidae
- Marine fish genera
- Taxa named by Georges Cuvier
- Ray-finned fish genera
- Stomiiformes stubs