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Genus of fishes

Borostomias

Borostomias antarcticus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Stomiiformes
Family:	Stomiidae
Subfamily:	Astronesthinae
Genus:	Borostomias Regan, 1908

Borostomias is a genus of barbeled dragonfishes.

The name derives from Greek βόρος (bóros, "glutton") and στομίας (stomías, "hard-mouthed horse").

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:

Borostomias abyssorum (Koehler (fr), 1896)
Borostomias antarcticus (Lönnberg, 1905) (Snaggletooth)
Borostomias elucens (A. B. Brauer, 1906)
Borostomias mononema (Regan & Trewavas, 1929) (Sickle snaggletooth)
Borostomias pacificus (S. Imai, 1941)
Borostomias panamensis Regan & Trewavas, 1929 (Panama snaggletooth)

References

"Borostomias antarcticus, Snaggletooth". www.fishbase.se.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Borostomias". FishBase. February 2012 version.

Taxon identifiers
Borostomias	Wikidata: Q2182951 AFD: Borostomias BOLD: 53084 CoL: 3BPZ GBIF: 2347199 iNaturalist: 87026 IRMNG: 1009639 ITIS: 162239 NBN: NHMSYS0019995611 NCBI: 473353 NZOR: ccbe0afc-8537-45bf-aaad-eb1e96299ab7 Open Tree of Life: 258155 Paleobiology Database: 352150 WoRMS: 126204

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