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Stomiidae
Shining Snaggletooth
Borostomias elucens
Stomiid Fish beneath the Caribbean Sea
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- Elongated
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Elongated
MediumShining Snaggletooth is a marine fish found around Eastern Atlantic. It inhabits deep water. Records give a maximum length of 35 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Stomiidae
- Genus
- Borostomias
- Maximum length
- 35 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Eastern Atlantic: Madeira south to Angola. Western Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico and western Caribbean Sea. One specimen collected off the Guianas (Ref. 13608 ). Elsewhere, Indian and Pacific oceans.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Water
Conservation status
