Boa Scaly Dragonfish, Stomias boa (Risso 1810)
Other Names: Boa Dragonfish, Scaly Dragonfish
A Boa Scaly Dragonfish, Stomias boa, photographed by an ROV in the midwaters of the Nantucket Canyon, NW Atlantic, October 2014. Source: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Our Deepwater Backyard: Exploring Atlantic Canyons and Seamounts Oct 2014. License: Public Domain
Summary:
A Boa Scaly Dragonfish filmed by an ROV in the midwaters of the Nantucket Canyon, NW Atlantic, during the NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Our Deepwater Backyard: Exploring Atlantic Canyons and Seamounts Octeber 2014.
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Bray, D.J. 2017, Stomias boa in Fishes of Australia, accessed 24 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/4437
Boa Scaly Dragonfish, Stomias boa (Risso 1810)
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Distribution |
Off central New South Wales, to off Bunbury, Western Australia. Elsewhere the species is circumglobal in subtropical and temperate waters of the southern hemisphere, and also occurs in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. |
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Feeding |
Feeds mostly on mesopelagic fishes and some crustaceans. |
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Species Citation |
Esox boa Risso 1810, Ichthyologie de Nice: 330. Type locality: Nice, France. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2017 |
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Boa Scaly Dragonfish, Stomias boa (Risso 1810)
References
Gibbs, R.H. 1969. Taxonomy, sexual dimorphism, vertical distribution and evolutionary zoogeography of the bathypelagic fish genus Stomias (Stomiidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 31: 1-25 figs 1-6
Gon, O. 1990. Stomiidae. Scaly dragonfishes, pp. 127-133. In: Gon, O. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds) Fishes of the Southern Ocean,. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Harold, A. 2015. Stomias boa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T198563A21909545. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T198563A21909545.en. Downloaded on 03 February 2017.
Kenaley, C.P., Harold, A.S. & Gomon, M.F. 2008. Family Stomiidae. pp. 240-254 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds) Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp.
Kenaley, C.P. & Stewart, A.L. 2015. Family Stomiidae, 69 Subfamily Stomiinae (pp. 487-491). In: Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. 2015. The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 2 pp. 1-576.
Risso, A. 1810. Ichthyologie de Nice, ou histoire naturelle des poissons du département des Alpes Maritimes. Paris : F. Schaell 388 pp. 11 pls.
Robertson, E.M. & Gomon, M.F. 1994. Families Stomiidae, Chauliodontidae, Astronesthidae, Melanostomiidae, Malacosteidae, Idiacanthidae. pp. 251-263 figs 225-235 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds) The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs.
