Stomiidae
Creators: name: Fricke, Ronald
name: Allen, Gerald R.
name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Hamel, Mélanie A.
name: Laboute, Pierre
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Hui, Tan Heok
name: Uyeno, Daisuke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Stomiiformes
Stomiidae

description: Stomiidae    Astronesthes cyaneus (Brauer, 1902)  —Blue astronesthid fish   
 STATUS AT MADANG. New record from Madang, based on AMS material (AMS I.19727-041). DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Madagascar east to Hawaiian Islands, north to Ogasawara Islands. Bathypelagic, 120– 800 m. Marine.   
  Astronesthes lucifer Gilbert, 1905  —Pacific astronesthid fish   
 STATUS AT MADANG. New record from Madang, based on AMS material (AMS I.19727-039). DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Yemen east to Hawaiian Islands, north to Taiwan. Bathypelagic, 25– 704 m. Marine.   
  Chauliodus sloani Bloch & Schneider, 1801  —Sloane's viperfish   
 STATUS AT MADANG. New record from Madang, based on AMS material (AMS I.19695-015, I.19701-033, I.19702-070, I.19713-027, I.19727-045, I.19728-048).   
DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Worldwide in tropical and temperate seas. Bathypelagic, 200–4700 m. Marine.  
  Eustomias bifilis Gibbs, 1960  —Twinthread dragonfish   
STATUS AT MADANG. First record from Madang by Kailola (1987a: 85). AMS material. DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Indonesia and New Guinea east to eastern Pacific. Mesopelagic, 0– 800 m. Marine.  
  Leptostomias gladiator (Zugmayer, 1911)  — Gladiator dragonfish   
STATUS AT MADANG. First record from Madang by Kailola (1987a: 85). AMS material. DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Worldwide in tropical and warm temperate seas. Mesopelagic, 0–3000 m. Marine.  
  Malacosteus niger Ayres, 1848  —Stoplight loosejaw   
STATUS AT MADANG. First record from Bismarck Sea off Madang by Kenaley (2007: 895). DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Worldwide in tropical and warm temperate seas, in the Northern Hemisphere also in cold temperate seas. Bathypelagic, 500–3886 m. Marine.  
  Melanostomias melanops Brauer, 1902  —Blackeye dragonfish   
 STATUS AT MADANG. New record from Madang, based on AMS material (AMS I.19712-009). DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Worldwide in tropical and warm temperate seas. Bathypelagic, 350–1024 m. Marine.   
  Photonectes albipennis (Döderlein, 1882)  —Whitepen dragonfish   
STATUS AT MADANG. First record from Madang by Kailola (1987a: 86). AMS material. DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Worldwide in tropical and warm temperate seas, 120– 800 m. Marine.  
  Photonectes mirabilis Parr, 1927  —Blueband dragonfish   
STATUS AT MADANG. First record from Madang by Kailola (1987a: 86). DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Tropical and warm temperate Atlantic; Australia and New Guinea in western Pacific. Mesopelagic, 0– 800 m. Marine.  
  Photonectes parvimanus Regan & Trewavas, 1930  —Fleshyfin dragonfish   
STATUS AT MADANG. First record from Madang by Kailola (1987a: 87).  
DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Tropical and warm temperate Atlantic; Australia and New Guinea in western Pacific. Bathypelagic, 150–1463 m. Marine.  
  * Photonectes paxtoni Flynn & Klepadlo, 2012  —Paxton's dragonfish STATUS AT MADANG. Originally described from Madang by Flynn & Klepadlo (2012: 265), based on AMS material.   
DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Only known from Madang, Papua New Guinea. Bathypelagic, 130– 135 m. Marine.  
  Stomias affinis Günther, 1887  —Günther's boafish   
 STATUS AT MADANG. New record from Madang, based on AMS material (AMS I.19729-016, I.19727-013, I.19727-038, I.19729-044).   
DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas. Bathypelagic, 0–3182 m. Marine.
description: Published as part of Fricke, Ronald, Allen, Gerald R., Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Hamel, Mélanie A., Laboute, Pierre, Mana, Ralph, Hui, Tan Heok & Uyeno, Daisuke, 2014, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Madang District, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 820 new records, pp. 1-247 in Zootaxa 3832 (1) on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3832.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/250559