Genus Macrostomias

Macrostomias Brauer, 1902

Body extremely slender, its depth 20-35 times in length. Chin barbel 6-11 times head length, with several complex filaments on sides and end of distal bulb. More than 170 photophores in ventral series (IC).

See family for biology, etc. Species 2; in Clofnam area 1. Recent revisions: Shcherbachev and Novikova (1976).

Species of this genus in the program:
Macrostomias longibarbatus

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