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Species Summary for Photostomias guernei - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?ID=5089

Western Atlantic: USA to the Gulf of Mexico; reported from the Antilles. Eastern Atlantic: southern Portugal to Mauritania. Indo-Pacific: in tropical and temperate areas. Southeast Pacific: Chile.

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Trophic ecology of the deep-sea fish Malacosteus niger Ayres: Planktivory by a top mesopelagic predator? - English
URL: http://www.imbc.gr/biblio_serv/deepsea/X6-0011.html

A fundamental precept of ecology is that functional morphology reflects the lifestyle and resource usage of an organism. With regard to fishes, prey type has been shown to correlate closely with feeding morphology (e.g. gape, dentition, gill rakers, etc.). Planktivores characteristically have small teeth, numerous fine gill rakers, and small to large gapes, while piscivores tend to have fewer, larger teeth, no gill rakers, and large to enormous gapes.

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Species Summary for Tactostoma macropus - Longfin dragonfish - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Tactostoma&speciesn

Northwest Pacific: Japan. Eastern Pacific: Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska to southern California, USA, southwards to central Baja California. Reported from Chile.

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NOVA Online | Into the Abyss | Grammatostomias flagellibarba - English
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/life/e243.html

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Large-eye Snaggletooth - Borostomias antarcticus - English
URL: http://www.arctic.uoguelph.ca/cpl/organisms/fish/marine/barb_dragon/largeeye.htm

This deepsea fish is found in every major ocean in the world, including the Arctic and Antarctic. In Canada, they occur off both the Arctic and Atlantic coasts and have been caught at depths ranging from 900-980 m. In other parts of the world, they have been found as deep as 2500 m. Its food is mainly crustaceans and other small, free-swimming organisms.

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Barbeled dragonfishes (Stomiidae) - English
URL: http://www.arctic.uoguelph.ca/cpl/organisms/fish/marine/barb_dragon/barb_intro.h

Dragonfishes have unusual morphological features that allow them to swallow food items larger than themselves without damaging their fragile tissues. Instead of bony vertebrae in the upper spine, these fishes have a flexible rod made of cartilage that allows the head to fold backward! Vulnerable organs – the heart and gills – retract when food is swallowed, to avoid damage by struggling prey, and return to their regular position once the item has moved into the digestive tract.

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Stomiidae - English
URL: http://cichlidresearch.com/fish_html/fstomiid.html

The Family Stomiidae contains these Genera: Chauliodus, Stomias, Astronesthes, Borostomias, Heterophotus, Neonesthes, Rhadinesthes, Bathophilus, Chirostomias, Echiostoma, Eustomias, Flagellostomias, Grammatostomias, Leptostomias, Melanostomias, Odontostomias, Opostomias, Pachystomias, Parabathophilus, Photonectes, Tactostoma, Thysanactis, Trigonolampa, Aristostomias, Malacosteus, Photostomias, Idiacanthus.

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Stomiidae - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/FamilySummary.cfm?ID=91

Distribution: Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. No true gill rakers in adults; one infraorbital bone; one or no supramaxillaries; mesopterygoid reduced in size or absent; photophores without ducts or lumen; mental barbel in most, associated with hyoid apparatus; pectoral fin rays absent in Tactostoma, Idiacanthus, and Photostomias; most are darkish in color.

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InterNevod: Стомиевые (Stomiidae) - Russian
URL: http://www.internevod.com/rus/academy/bio/k_fish/stomiatidae.shtml

Семейство стомиевых содержит всего два рода с девятью видами. Наиболее многочисленны эти рыбы на глубинах 300-500 м, но обитают они в гораздо большом диапазоне глубин - почти от поверхности и до 2000 м, причем более крупные экземпляры держатся глубже.

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