Photostomias

Genus of fishes

Photostomias
Photostomias atrox
Photostomias guernei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Stomiiformes
Family: Stomiidae
Subfamily: Malacosteinae
Genus: Photostomias
Collett, 1889
Species

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Photostomias is a genus of barbeled dragonfishes. They are found worldwide.

Photostomias guernei showing bio-luminescent organ

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[1]

  • Photostomias atrox (Alcock, 1890)
  • Photostomias goodyeari Kenaley & Hartel, 2005
  • Photostomias guernei Collett, 1889
  • Photostomias liemi Kenaley, 2009
  • Photostomias lucingens Kenaley, 2009
  • Photostomias tantillux Kenaley, 2009

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Photostomias in FishBase. February 2012 version.
Taxon identifiers
Photostomias
  • Wikidata: Q2154549
  • Wikispecies: Photostomias
  • AFD: Photostomias
  • BOLD: 72435
  • CoL: 6P4Z
  • EoL: 46563667
  • GBIF: 2346944
  • iNaturalist: 91022
  • IRMNG: 1108891
  • ITIS: 162270
  • NCBI: 882870
  • NZOR: 055af811-1c15-4337-a0a7-af2a44e05242
  • Open Tree of Life: 858653
  • WoRMS: 126218


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