stomiid

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noun

Any member of the family Stomiidae of deep-sea ray-finned fish, including the barbeled dragonfishes, stareaters, and loosejaws.

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Meanings

nounstomiid (plural stomiids)

plural stomiids

  1. biologyAny member of the family Stomiidae of deep-sea ray-finned fish, including the barbeled dragonfishes, stareaters, and loosejaws.

    Since stomiids are sensitive to the far-red bioluminescence produced by their suborbital photophores, which other animals in the deep sea cannot see, they have what could be regarded as a private waveband.

    2001, Friedrich G. Barth, Ecology of Sensing
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