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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Stomiiformes |
Family: | Stomiidae |
Genus: | Stomias |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | S. f.
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Trinomial name | |
Stomias ferox
Reinhardt, 1842
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Synonyms [2] | |
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Stomias ferox is a subspecies of deep-sea fish in the family Stomiidae. [3] [4] [5]
Stomias ferox has an elongated body and small head; [6] it is up to 30 cm (0.98 ft) in length, black underneath and iridescent silver on its flanks, with a barbel that has a pale stem, dark spot at base of bulb and three blackish filaments. [7] [8] It has six rows of hexagonal areas above a lateral series of large photophores. [9] The dorsal and anal fins are opposite each other, just anterior to the caudal fin. [10] It can be distinguished from the S. boa boa subspecies by its larger number of photophores. [11]
The subspecies name ferox means "wild, ferocious." 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"). [14] [15]
Stomias ferox is mesopelagic and bathypelagic, living at depths of 20–800 m (66–2,625 ft), concentrated in the north Atlantic. [16] [17]
Stomias ferox eats midwater fishes and crustaceans; it rises to near the surface to feed at night. [8] It positions itself horizontally in the water column with pelvic and pectoral fins spread wide and barbel pointing forward. [18]
Stomias ferox is oviparous. [19] [20]
Stomias ferox | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Stomiiformes |
Family: | Stomiidae |
Genus: | Stomias |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | S. f.
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Trinomial name | |
Stomias ferox
Reinhardt, 1842
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Synonyms [2] | |
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Stomias ferox is a subspecies of deep-sea fish in the family Stomiidae. [3] [4] [5]
Stomias ferox has an elongated body and small head; [6] it is up to 30 cm (0.98 ft) in length, black underneath and iridescent silver on its flanks, with a barbel that has a pale stem, dark spot at base of bulb and three blackish filaments. [7] [8] It has six rows of hexagonal areas above a lateral series of large photophores. [9] The dorsal and anal fins are opposite each other, just anterior to the caudal fin. [10] It can be distinguished from the S. boa boa subspecies by its larger number of photophores. [11]
The subspecies name ferox means "wild, ferocious." 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"). [14] [15]
Stomias ferox is mesopelagic and bathypelagic, living at depths of 20–800 m (66–2,625 ft), concentrated in the north Atlantic. [16] [17]
Stomias ferox eats midwater fishes and crustaceans; it rises to near the surface to feed at night. [8] It positions itself horizontally in the water column with pelvic and pectoral fins spread wide and barbel pointing forward. [18]
Stomias ferox is oviparous. [19] [20]