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Photostomias
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Photostomias

Photostomias is a genus of barbeled dragonfishes. They are found worldwide. The genus was previously known as ultimostomias.

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

Deepsea Loosejaw

speciesPhotostomias guernei

Photostomias goodyeari

speciesPhotostomias goodyeari

Photostomias atrox

speciesPhotostomias atrox

Photostomias liemi

speciesPhotostomias liemi

Lord Howe Loosejaw

speciesPhotostomias lucingens

Photostomias tantillux

speciesPhotostomias tantillux

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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 91022.