dragonfish

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From dragon +‎ fish.

dragonfish (plural dragonfishes or dragonfish)

1. Any of several long, slender fishes, of the family Stomiidae, that have a luminous barbel used to attract prey.
2. Other fish thought to resemble dragons or fish of the family Stomiidae
   1. sculptured seamoth (Pegasus lancifer)
   2. short dragonfish (Eurypegasus draconis)
   3. Gunther's boafish (Stomias affinis)
   4. Any fossil fish of genus †Draconichthys
   5. violet goby (Gobioides broussonnetii)
   6. gray bichir Polypterus senegalus
   7. Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus)

• Antarctic dragonfish* (Bathydraconidae spp.)
• arrow dragonfish (Tactostoma macropus)
• Atlantic dragonfish (Idiacanthus atlanticus)
• Australian dragonfish (Eustomias australensis)
• banshee dragonfish (Photonectes banshee)
• barbate dragonfish (Eustomias enbarbatus)
• barbeled dragonfish* (Stomiidae spp.)
• barbless dragonfish (Bathophilus abarbatus)
• bigbarb dragonfish (Eustomias macronema)
• black dragonfish (Idiacanthus spp., Bathophilus indicus)
• blackbelly dragonfish (Stomias atriventer)
• boa dragonfish (Stomias boa, Stomias ferox)
• Brauer's dragonfish (Photonectes braueri)
• brightchin dragonfish (Melanostomias globulifer)
• broomfin dragonfish (Thysanactis dentex)
• bulbless dragonfish (Photonectes caerulescens)
• common dragonfish (Eustomias vulgaris)
• Dannevig's dragonfish (Chauliodus sloani)
• deepsea dragonfish (Eustomias trewavasae)
• dendrobium dragonfish (Eustomias dendrobium)
• fangtooth dragonfish (Melanostomias niger)
• fleshyfin dragonfish (Photonectes parvimanus)
• graceful dragonfish (Photonectes gracilis)
• giant dragonfish (Bathysphaera intacta)
• grapevine dragonfish (Eustomias bulbornatus)
• hiddenbulb dragonfish (Eustomias cryptobulbus)
• highfin dragonfish (Bathophilus flemingi)
• honeycomb dragonfish (Stomias affinis)
• little dragonfish (Eurypegasus draconis)
• longbarb dragonfish (Flagellostomias boureei)
• longfin dragonfish (Tactostoma macropus)
• long-tailed dragonfish (Pegasus volitans
• Mawson's dragonfish (Cygnodraco maesoni)
• multi-thread dragonfish (Eustomias multifilis)
• Noronha dragonfish (Melanostomias dio)
• obese dragonfish (Opostomias micripnus)
• Parin's dragonfish (Eustomias parini)
• Pawnee dragonfish (Bathophilus pawneei)
• proud dragonfish (Eustomia achirus)
• scaleless dragonfish* (Stomiidae spp.)
• scaly dragonfish (Stomias boa, S. affinis, S. ferox)
• Schmidt's dragonfish (Eustomias schmidti)
• sculptured dragonfish (Pegasus lancifer)
• short dragonfish (Eurypegasus draconis)
• smalltooth dragonfish (Pachystomias mirodon)
• spothead dragonfish (Melanostomias paucilaternatus)
• stamen dragonfish (Eustomias stamen)
• straightline dragonfish (Borostomias antarcticus)
• tentacle dragonfish (Melanostomias tentaculatus)
• threadfin dragonfish (Echiostoma barbatum)
• threelight dragonfish (Trigonolampa miriceps)
• three-tentacles dragonfish (Eustomias tritentaculatus)
• three-ray dragonfish (Melanostomias pauciradius)
• twinray dragonfish (Eustomia satterleei)
• twinthread dragonfish (Eustomias bifilis)
• Valdivia dragonfish (Melanostomias valdiveae)
• Vitiaz dragonfish (Eustomias vitiazi)
• whitepen dragonfish (Photonecter albipennis)
• winged dragonfish (Nathophils ater)
• yellowstem dragonfish (Eustomias macrurus)

• dragon fish
• dragonet

• dragonfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Stomiidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Stomiidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons