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Aristostomias
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Aristostomias

Aristostomtias is a genus of barbeled dragonfishes native to the ocean depths in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species

Shining Loosejaw

speciesAristostomias scintillans

Moon Loosejaw

speciesAristostomias lunifer

Nobulb Loosejaw

speciesAristostomias grimaldii

Manyray Loosejaw

speciesAristostomias polydactylus

Strangemouth Loosejaw

speciesAristostomias xenostoma

Grouplight Loosejaw

speciesAristostomias tittmanni

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 86637.