Scaly dragonfish
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| Scaly dragonfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Stomiiformes |
| Family: | Stomiidae |
| Genus: | Stomias |
| Species: | S. boa |
| Subspecies: | S. boa boa |
| Trinomial name | |
| Stomias boa boa (Risso, 1810) |
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The scaly dragonfish, Stomias boa boa, is a small abyssal barbeled dragonfish of the family Stomiidae, found worldwide in tropical to temperate oceans , apart from the north Pacific and northwest Atlantic Oceans, at depths of between 200 and 1,500 m. Its length is between 20 and 32 cm.
[edit] References
- Scaly dragonfish on FishBase.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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