Stomiidae

boa dragonfish

Stomias boa

Stomiid Fish Lighting the Deep

• Circumpolar Antarctic
• Southern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Africa
• Polar regions
• South America
• Elongated
• Medium

Stomias boa, also known as the boa dragonfish, scaly dragonfish, dragon-boa or boa scaly dragonfish, is a species of deep-sea fish in the family Stomiidae. It is found at great depths worldwide in tropical to temperate oceans but is absent from the northern Pacific and northwest Atlantic Oceans.