Genus Photostylus

Photostylus Beebe, 1933

Body fairly elongate, scaleless, with small light organs on stalks on head and body. Dorsal and anal fins set far back on body, approximately equal and opposite to each other.
Bathypelagic on steep slopes.

Species 1.

Recent revisions: Quero (1975), Goodyear (1969).

Species of this genus in the program:
Photostylus pycnopterus

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