Stomiidae

Sloan's fangfish

Chauliodus sloani

Thirty Five Centimeters Stomiid Fish from the Indian Ocean

• Temperate
• Near the Equator
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• East Asia
• Elongated
• Medium

The Sloane's viperfish (Chauliodus sloani), is a predatory mesopelagic dragonfish found in waters across the world. The species was first described by German scientists Marcus Elieser Bloch and Johann Gottlob Schneider in their 1801 book Systema ichthyologiae: iconibus CX illustratum, volume 1. Female C. sloani reach maturity between 133 and 191 mm, while males likely reach maturity at slightly smaller body lengths.