Melanostomias
Melanostomias is a genus of barbeled dragonfishes.
18 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 18 known species
Scaleless black dragonfish
speciesMelanostomias bartonbeani
Melanostomias melanops
speciesMelanostomias melanops
Fangtooth Dragonfish
speciesMelanostomias niger
Tentacle Dragonfish
speciesMelanostomias tentaculatus
Melanostomias margaritifer
speciesMelanostomias margaritifer
Melanostomias biseriatus
speciesMelanostomias biseriatus
Valdivia Dragonfish
speciesMelanostomias valdiviae
Brightchin Dragonfish
speciesMelanostomias globulifer
Spothead Dragonfish
speciesMelanostomias paucilaternatus
Three-ray Dragonfish
speciesMelanostomias pauciradius
Melanostomias macrophotus
speciesMelanostomias macrophotus
Melanostomias melanopogon
speciesMelanostomias melanopogon
Melanostomias nigroaxialis
speciesMelanostomias nigroaxialis
Melanostomias stewarti
speciesMelanostomias stewarti
Melanostomias vierecki
speciesMelanostomias vierecki
Noronha Dragonfish
speciesMelanostomias dio
Melanostomias spilorhynchus
speciesMelanostomias spilorhynchus
Melanostomias pollicifer
speciesMelanostomias pollicifer
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 89841.